AhlulBayt News Agency: The Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly has issued a blistering critique of the international order, demanding the immediate suspension of the Israeli regime's membership in the United Nations.
Numan Kurtulmuş, addressing the opening of the 152nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Istanbul, declared that the current global system is governed by the "law of the jungle" and has proven utterly impotent in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Speaking to delegates from approximately 155 countries—including 80 parliamentary speakers and nearly 800 lawmakers—Kurtulmuş stated that the international community has entered a perilous new era where the established rules of engagement have collapsed. He lambasted the UN and its affiliated bodies for their systemic "corruption and collapse," arguing they have forfeited their mandate by failing to halt the bloodshed in Palestine.
"The regime that has murdered more than 75,000 people in Gaza, the vast majority of whom are women and children, has exposed the complete and utter bankruptcy of this global architecture," Kurtulmuş told the assembly, as reported by Anadolu Agency. "We must ask ourselves: Which international body is capable of de-escalating the spiraling conflicts between Iran, the United States, and the Israeli regime? The answer is clear: none."
The Turkish official drew a direct historical parallel to the global response against Apartheid South Africa, which saw its credentials suspended by the UN General Assembly in 1974. "Just as the world united to suspend South Africa's membership over its racist, criminal policies, we must now act with the same resolve against the Israeli regime for its identical treatment of the Palestinian people," he argued. "This is not merely a regional dispute; it is a litmus test for the credibility of the international legal order."
Kurtulmuş further underscored the selective application of international law, pointing to the swift European response to the rise of far-right politics in Austria as evidence that the world can act when there is political will. "If the will exists to prevent a certain political situation in Vienna, then surely the will must be found to stop the massacre of infants in Gaza," he asserted.
The call from the Turkish parliament speaker comes amid heightened regional tensions and widespread diplomatic fallout over the regime's military adventurism. Kurtulmuş concluded his address by stressing the urgent need for a "new global order" grounded in justice and sovereign equality—a framework in which nations like Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria are no longer subjected to flagrant violations of their territorial integrity.
"This assembly of parliaments holds the key," Kurtulmuş said. "It is the legislative voice of the people, and it must be the driving force to dismantle this failed system and erect a world where equity, not force, dictates the course of nations."
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