Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday said that Muslims have been shoved to the corner of the world in the new global system.
“The Muslim region has been used as a fodder in a great game in the recent period. Its resources have been plundered and its borders have been redrawn,” he said an award ceremony for the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) in Ankara.
“The new global system has backed the Muslim world into a corner. In this new order, Muslims are denied a say in their own future, nor have they had a say in the future of humanity."
Referring to the five permanent Security Council members, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States, Erdoğan said: "The world is bigger than five. There are 194 members, but dont the 15 temporary members have any worth at all? They dont. I thought that it was established on justice? Dont search for justice at the UN Security Council or the United Nations. It doesn't exist."
"The fact that the Muslim world, which has a population of 1.7 billion people, does not have even a single permanent member in the UN Security Council, is a result of this distortion. That is why I say that the world is bigger than five," he concluded.
