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Turkey: US veto of U.N. resolution on Jerusalem, means Washington had” lost objectivity”

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has taken a leading position in opposing the U.S. move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has taken a leading position in opposing the U.S. move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,

Turkey regrets the vetoing by the United States on Monday of a U.N. Security Council resolution that called for the U.S. declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to be withdrawn, the Turkish foreign ministry said.

The United States was further isolated over President Donald Trump’s decision when it blocked a United Nations Security Council call for the declaration to be withdrawn despite the other 14 members voting in favor of it.

“The United States being left alone in the vote is a concrete sign of the illegality of its decision on Jerusalem,” the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement.

 It said the U.S. decision to veto the resolution showed once again that Washington had “lost objectivity” and that it was unacceptable for the Security Council to be left “ineffective” with such a move.Later on Monday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and British Prime Minister Theresa May discussed the blocking of the resolution in a phone call, and agreed that new tensions that could endanger the peace process in the region should be avoided, sources in Erdogan’s office said.

Erdogan has taken a leading position in opposing the U.S. move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, hosting representatives from more than 50 Muslim countries, including U.S. allies, in Istanbul last week for a summit in response.

A communique issued after the summit said the participants considered the move to be a declaration that Washington was withdrawing from its role “as sponsor of peace” in the Middle East.

Trump’s decision broke with decades of U.S. policy and international consensus that Jerusalem’s status must be left to Israeli-Palestinian talks, leading to harsh criticisms from Muslim countries and Israel’s closest European allies, who have also rejected the move.

Jerusalem, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, is home to Islam’s third-holiest site and has been at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades. Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in 1967 and later annexed it in an action not recognized internationally.

Last week, Erdogan said Turkey would seek the annulment of the move at the UN General Assembly if its initiatives in the Security Council failed.

REUTERS

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3 responses to “Turkey: US veto of U.N. resolution on Jerusalem, means Washington had” lost objectivity””

  1. Niemals Avatar
    Niemals

    You might think that when it comes to Jerusalem, the world is stuck in the same position as during the Crusades era.
    Jerusalem, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike.

    Jerusalem is home to Islam’s third-holiest site as well as the holiest for the Jews.
    Jerusalem has been at the heart of the Latin Church – Muslim rule for centuries and Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1e85586ca386789c8dbc8c8e61edd30ccea93acf2773558500c63ae2af6ed105.jpg Crac des Chevaliers
    The most commonly known Crusades are the campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Muslim rule, but the term “Crusades” is also applied to other church-sanctioned campaigns.

    Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in 1967 and later annexed it in an action not recognized internationally.

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Go learn history

  2. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    Damned Savage Turks. We had popes and Bishops 200 years before the Latin church. In 1204 the crusaders sacked Constantinople.

    “The Crusaders’ decision to attack the world’s largest Christian in city was unprecedented and immediately controversial, even among contemporaries.
    Reports of Crusader looting and brutality scandalized and horrified the Orthodox world; relations between the Catholic and Orthodox churches were catastrophically wounded for many centuries afterwards, and would not be substantially repaired until modern times.

    The Byzantine Empire was left much poorer, smaller, and ultimately less able to defend itself against the Turkish conquests that followed; the actions of the Crusaders thus directly accelerated the collapse of Christendom in the east, and in the long run facilitated the expansion of Islam into Europe.”

    Constantinople became Istanbul.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c61dbe85d1a87a0f80896f51709eaefde445321aa0e0c3bf151de75b2a8ca6eb.jpg .

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