Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Saturday said the majority of UN member states voted in favor of the resolution on Jerusalem undeterred by U.S. threats.
"Every country made its own decision," Yıldırım said during the ordinary provincial congress of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party in the Black Sea province of Bartın.
Yıldırım addressed Trump directly in reference to Thursday’s UN General Assembly vote: “Jerusalem is not unclaimed,” we said on that day.’
“It has today become so evident that these plans, these projects, which were laid out for these lands 100 years ago, are against the will of the region and that they will not work. Those who designed these plans, the decision makers are again trying to do the same thing, but there’s Turkey,” Yıldırım said.
“Turkey says: Nobody can come from thousands of kilometers away and make plans,” he continued.
Yıldırım blased Trump’s threat to cut aid to countries who vote against the U.S. at the UN General Assembly, saying that President Trump failed to account for the fact that “No matter how big a country you are, every state in this world with a flag, lands, sovereignty makes its own decisions, decides its own fate.”
The UN's 193-member General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution on Jerusalem with an overwhelming majority, calling on the U.S. to withdraw its recognition of the city as Israel's capital.
One hundred and twenty eight members voted in favor of the resolution, nine countries voted against and 35 others abstained.
Yıldırım said U.S. President Donald Trump's "threats did not work" to influence the outcome.
Trump had warned that aid would be cut to those countries voting against Washington’s move at the General Assembly. "They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care," Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday.
