Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rakes up Kashmir Issue at UNGA; expresses hope for ‘permanent peace’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday collected Kashmir edition during his speech at the UN General Assembly session in New York. Erdogan said that India and Pakistan could not build peace in Kashmir even after 75 years of their independence.

Overcoming high -level meetings, the Turkish President expressed his hope for “permanent peace” in the region. “India and Pakistan, after establishing their sovereignty and independence 75 years ago, they still have not set peace and solidarity between one another. This is very unfortunate. We hope and pray that fair and permanent peace will be determined in Kashmir,” Erdogan said as quoted by PTI.

The Turkish President sweeps the Kashmir problem in less than a week after he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Friday. During this meeting, PM Modi and Erdogan reviewed bilateral relations between the two countries.

In particular, Turkey is a close ally of Pakistan. Erdogan also mentioned also referring to the Kashmir problem in the previous Unga address. This causes tension in the bond between New Delhi and Ankara. India said Turkey’s previous comments about Kashmir “unacceptable”.

Last year, Erdogan mentioned the US resolution about Kashmir during the Unga meeting. In particular, after Pakistan, Turkey was the only country that brought Kashmir in Unga which consisted of 193. Meanwhile, in 2020, the Turkish President had called the Kashmir situation as a “burning problem”. He also criticized India’s move to eliminate special status for Kashmir.