President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan praised the resistance of Palestinian people in the face of Israel's genocidal attacks, as he spoke in a joint news conference with his Mongolian counterpart Ukhnaa Khurelsukh in the capital Ankara on Thursday.
Erdoğan said Palestinians did not give up their resistance despite Israel's genocide, which claimed almost 50,000 lives in Gaza.
"Despite losing more than 50,000 martyrs, mostly women and children, Gaza did not surrender, could not be subdued, and Gazans did not bow down to the oppressors," Erdoğan stressed.
"As an alliance of humanity, we must work harder, especially from this point on, to ensure adherence to the cease-fire, and to heal the wounds in Gaza," the president added.
Erdoğan noted that permanent peace in the Middle East is only possible with the establishment of a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
He called on the international community to uphold its obligations to the people of Gaza.
"The Israeli government must not be allowed to violate the cease-fire," said Erdoğan and added:
The world "must fulfill its legal and moral responsibilities toward Gazans."
