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Turkey’s President Erdogan says UN and Western values are ‘dying’ in Gaza

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York [Mike Segar/Reuters]

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the United Nations for inaction on Gaza and accused Israel of turning the Palestinian territory into the “world’s largest children’s and women’s cemetery”.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, he said, “In Gaza, not only are children dying, but also the United Nations system. The values the West claims to defend are dying, the truth is dying, and the hopes of humanity to live in a more just world are dying – one by one.”

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