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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday accused the international community of failing to stop violence against Palestinians, saying attacks in the occupied territories were becoming increasingly brazen as global institutions remained ineffective.
Speaking at the opening of the TRT World Forum 2026 at the Istanbul Congress Center, Erdogan said the international system was failing to uphold peace, security and stability.
“Occupier terrorism, which seeks to forcibly displace Palestinians from their ancestral homeland, is growing more and more brazen by the day under the indifferent gaze of the modern world,” Erdogan said.
He said international institutions were once again “watching from the sidelines” as events unfolded in Gaza, comparing their response with previous crises in Rwanda and Srebrenica.
“They take no action other than watching human tragedies with concern or voicing concern over them,” he said.
Erdogan said more than 3,000 attacks and violations targeting Palestinians in the West Bank were recorded in October alone.
He also said the October 2025 Gaza Peace Agreement, which Türkiye helped broker, was not being implemented.
“Those who turn into lions when it comes to Türkiye suddenly become paper tigers when the issue is the genocide network,” Erdogan said, describing the situation as a clear example of double standards.
He stressed the principle of “pacta sunt servanda,” meaning agreements must be kept, and said international problems could not be resolved if commitments were ignored.
Erdogan said global and regional developments showed that the international system had raised a “white flag of surrender.”
“We are going through a turbulent period in which power rivalries are intensifying, rules are being disregarded, the rules-based system is being seriously eroded, and values are undergoing a virtual landslide,” he said.
He argued that global governance mechanisms had become inadequate and ineffective, adding that international norms and principles were being “trampled underfoot.”
“We are all facing a structural crisis in which the old is dying and the new has not yet been born,” Erdogan said.
Erdogan said Türkiye remained committed to building what he described as a fairer world and working toward peaceful solutions to conflicts stretching from Palestine to Yemen, Sudan and Ukraine.
“Despite the discomfort of some and attempts by others to derail us and our country through dirty campaigns, we will never back down,” he said.
“Whatever the cost, we will continue to courageously voice what we believe to be right, openly share our proposals for solutions, and resolutely defend what is just and true.”
Erdogan said ending the broader international crisis through fair and just solutions was a shared responsibility for those guided by “reason and conscience.”
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