Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes for permanent peace in Kashmir during UNGA address

NEW YORK, Sep 21 (SABAH): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that India and Pakistan have not established peace between them as yet and expressed his hope for permanent peace in Kashmir.

Recap Tayyip Erdogan said this while addressing the world leaders at the high-level United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session. “India and Pakistan, after having established their sovereignty and independence 75 years ago, still haven’t established peace and solidarity between one another. This is much unfortunate. We hope and pray that a fair and permanent peace and prosperity will be established in Kashmir,” Erdogan said.

Recap Tayyip Erdogan also stressed upon the international community to help the flood affectees of Pakistan.

Recap Tayyip Erdogan’s comment comes almost a week after he met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in the Uzbek city of Samarkand. At the SCO summit, both leaders reviewed the full range of bilateral relations and discussed ways to deepen cooperation in diverse sectors.

This is not the first time Erdogan has talked about Kashmir. Earlier in 2020, in an address at Pakistan’s Parliament, Erdogan had compared “the struggle of Kashmiri people with that of fight by Turkish people against foreign domination during the World War I”.

Following this, India had criticised his comments and asked him not to interfere in India’s internal affairs. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kaumar had said India rejects all references made by the Turkish President on Jammu and Kashmir, stating that the region is an integral and inalienable part of India.