{ More countries from across the world’s continents should be represented in the UN Security Council, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday}. <\/p>\n
“The permanent members only represent Europe, America, and Asia,” Erdogan said during a groundbreaking ceremony of a new campus for Yildirim Beyazit University in Ankara. “There is no country representing the Muslim world.”<\/p>\n
The UN Security Council consists of 15 members, with Russia, the UK, the US, France and China serving as the body’s five permanent members. The non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms by the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n
Erdogan also repeated his famous statement that “the world is bigger than five,” in reference to the Security Council’s permanent members who can veto any substantive resolution. <\/p>\n
“The fate of all other countries across the world cannot depend on what the current permanent members will say,” he added. <\/p>\n
The Turkish president suggested that the “permanent” members should be changed periodically, taking into account different ethnicities and religions. <\/p>\n
Erdogan also said that air attacks in Syria and Iraq, which are being carried out by the US-led coalition against ISIL, “are not enough.”<\/p>\n
“We have said that the Free Syrian Army should be supported against Daesh,\u201d the Turkish president said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIL. <\/p>\n
Erdogan also said that the U.S.-led coalition has “helped the Kurdish Democratic Union Party and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Kobani,” instead of aiding the Free Syrian Army. <\/p>\n
“Both PYD and PKK are terror organizations, and we cannot tolerate their aim of establishing a state in northern Syria,” Erdogan added. “Kobani was brought to the agenda, but the 1.2 million people in Aleppo, with their history and civilization, have been ruined.”<\/p>\n
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