ISLAMABAD: President of Turkey Recap Tayyab Erdogan said Daesh and Al Qaeda supported by west and have no affiliation with Islam.
Reiterating his government’s clear stance against terrorism, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday called for unity to foil the conspiracy of creating fissure in the Muslim Ummah.
Addressing the joint session of the Parliament, the Turkish president said terrorists had nothing to do with Islam as the promotion of peace and brotherhood was basis of Islam.
Chaired by Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the session was attended by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while in the galleries were the chief ministers of Pubjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan besides the services chiefs and diplomats from various countries.
As the guest entered the House, the members arose from their seat and thumped desks to welcome him.
The national anthems of both the countries were also played.
The Turkish president said strengthening democracy in Pakistan was laudable and also apprised the House of the foiled coup attempt in his own country.
He said relations between Pakistan and Turkey were beyond just words as both were brotherly countries in real term, bound by common religious and other multiple ties dating back to Caliphate movement.
He recalled Pakistan’s support in various instances including earthquake in 2004 and announcing of day of mourning after a terror incident in Turkey. Turkey also announced a day of mourning after terrorist attack at Army Public school in Peshawar, he added.
Besides their close cooperation against terrorism and for promotion of economic, trade, defense and cultural ties, the president said both the countries were also paying attention to the projects of public interest.
Turkish President Erdogan recalled that Pakistan was the first country to stand by Turkey with its state government, parliament and its people after the 15 July coup attempt in Turkey.
“We appreciated the resolutions of support which were adopted unanimously by your parliament,” he said adding that the support visit of the Pakistani delegation to Turkey in August, contributed to their struggle against the terrorist organizations.
He said that Pakistan, with its stance against the 15 July coup attempt, perpetrated by Fetullah Glen Terrorist Organization (FETO), showed that it also stood by the Turkish nation in its second War of Liberation.
“May Allah be pleased with you and forever maintain and preserve our solidarity,” he remarked.
Erdogan reiterated that FETO was a terrorist organization posing a threat not only to Turkey but to all countries in which it operates.
He believed that this terrorist organization would be eliminated as soon as possible without harming Pakistan. He also appreciated the recent decisions taken by the Pakistani government in this direction and thanked for your strong support in our fight against FETO.
The Turkish president believed that Pakistan and Turkey should maintain and further enhance our cooperation and solidarity against terrorist organizations.
He said the terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaida and its affiliate DAESH were the agents of the war carried out against Islam which were only and solely harming Muslims.
“We should eliminate these bunches of killers, who have no other skill than to shed Muslims’ blood, from the Islamic world and from all over the world as soon as possible. Otherwise, neither Turkey, nor Pakistan, nor the world of Islam, nor humankind will attain peace,” the Turkish president remarked.
He said the condition to deserve the title of Muslim was to stand against all kinds of persecution, inequity and injustice wherever and by whoever it was perpetrated.
He viewed that terrorist organizations tried to find a basis for themselves by provoking the divisions and differences among the Muslims.
In order to save the Muslims from this servile situation faced, Muslims would have to eradicate all means of exploitation from sectarianism to ethnic discrimination spreading among the Islamic nations.
He called for fighting together against those who were desiring to turn the Islamic World into a geography in which division, defeatism, instigation, hatred and ignorance prevail.
He said Turkey also showed its solidarity with all of brothers and sisters through Turkish humanitarian and development assistance projects, with political and military support when necessary.
“We will continue our struggle until we succeed in preventing unjustly spilling of blood of any Muslim in the world,” he resolved.
He also offered Pakistan to remove together the obstacles before the Islamic World.
