ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the United Nations General Assembly should recommend the use of force, in line with a resolution it passed in 1950, if the U.N. Security Council fails to stop Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon.
“The U.N. General Assembly should rapidly implement the authority to recommend the use of force, as it did with the 1950 Uniting for Peace resolution, if the Security Council can’t show the necessary will,” Erdogan said after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.
He also urged Muslim countries to take economic, diplomatic, and political steps against Israel to pressure it into accepting a ceasefire, and added Israel’s attacks would target them too if it is not stopped soon.
(Reporting by Huseyin Hayatsever and Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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