President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking on Friday at a joint press conference with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, called on the international community to show solidarity in the fight against the extremist terrorist group ISIS, which took dozens of Turkish citizens hostage last year and recently conducted a suicide bombing in southeastern Turkey, killing 32. Erdoğan then addressed Indonesian students at a Jakarta conference on Turkish foreign policy, where he said that both Turkey and the international community's security is under threat today due to the situation in Syria. He added that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad tried all kinds of "dirty methods" including chemical weapons, ballistic missiles and terrorist organizations in its struggle against its own people. "The terrorist organization ISIS is a product of such a perception, such a project. This organization's actions bear no relation to our religion, morality, conscience or culture," Erdoğan said."We have to demonstrate that we have the will to categorically refuse terrorism, without legitimizing it regardless of the source or identity of terrorism. Turkey will continue to fight terrorism even if we are left isolated," the president said, adding that accusations against Turkey that it was a transit country for foreign fighters to join ISIS in Syria were "disturbing and baseless" claims. "We, from the beginning, want nothing but peace, prosperity and tranquility for the whole Middle East," he said. "The allegations against Turkey about foreign fighters acting in Syria are totally baseless."Erdoğan also said that the violent images released by ISIS are being intentionally served to the world in order to damage the perception of Islam and Muslims. He said that everyone should stand against this alongside Turkey.Turkey shares an 900-kilometer border with Syria. Turkish officials have repeatedly said that they are cooperating with other countries to stop the flow of foreign fighters into its volatile neighboring countries.Erdoğan said on Thursday that allied and neighboring countries had stood firm in their support for Turkey's fight against terrorism from both the PKK and ISIS, thanking them for their steadfastness. "Turkey's counterterrorism measures will continue until terrorism is eliminated," he said.Erdoğan also said that there was a multi-stage plan to establish peace in Syria and that wiping out ISIS from the region was the first stage. "The civil war in Syria had caused the country to become a training ground for all kinds of militants," Erdoğan said. "Turkey has banned 16,000 people from entering Turkey and deported 1,600 to prevent them from going to Syria."He said he had talked to many heads of state and governments recently and explained that Ankara would take steps with the anti-ISIS coalition. Erdoğan said Turkey wanted the coalition to include more Muslim countries. His eventual objective is to establish a government of transition that did not include Assad. Erdoğan said all the counterterrorism measures taken by Ankara were in accordance with international law, and the U.N., NATO and Iraq were notified before the cross-border operations.Erdoğan also said that there must be closer cooperation to counter xenophobia, discrimination and Islamophobia."Recently, discriminatory actions in Europe against Muslims worry us. Turkey, which has 5 million citizens living in Europe, is the country most affected by such negativity," he added.He also said that with the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, the Mediterranean Sea "has become the most problematic area in the world, instead of being a sea of peace."