ISTANBUL - There is no other war where women and children have been directly targeted as much as in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.
"In the last 13 months, more than two-thirds of the over 50,000 innocent people killed in Gaza were women and children,” said Erdogan in an address to the International Women and Justice Summit in the Turkish commercial capital, Istanbul.
He added that Ankara will continue to stand by its "brothers and sisters” in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, both of them under siege by Israeli offensives, until the massacres stop and a cease-fire and peace are established.
Erdogan also said that he "sincerely" believes that Donald Trump, who this week won a return to the White House after a four-year hiatus, will take the "necessary steps to end wars," voicing hope that this will happen. - BERNAMA