Turkey’s Erdogan tells Lebanese PM urgent international solution needed to stop Israel

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Turkey’s Erdogan tells Lebanese PM urgent international solution needed to stop *******

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Wednesday that the international community must urgently implement a solution to stop *******’s aggression, the Turkish presidency said, adding he had also voiced support for Lebanon.

A NATO member, Turkey has denounced *******’s devastating military offensive in Gaza prompted by ************ militant group ******’ cross-border ******* last Oct. 7.

Turkey halted all trade with ******* and applied to join a genocide case against ******* at the World Court. ******* has said the genocide accusations are baseless and has repeatedly denied targeting civilians.

Erdogan has previously condemned ******** attacks on Lebanese territory, which ******* says are targeting Hezbollah fighters and infrastructure, and has called for international steps to halt *******’s war in Gaza and cross-border ***** with Hezbollah.

Turkey’s presidency said Erdogan told Mikati in a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York that the international community must urgently implement a solution to stop “*******’s aggression.”

“President Erdogan said ******* was disregarding fundamental human rights, committing a genocide in front of the world, noting that stopping this and the humanitarian crisis that emerged as a result of the attacks was a humanitarian duty,” the presidency said in a statement.

Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib in New York that *******’s attacks in Lebanon were “unacceptable” and meant to “drag the region into chaos,” according to the Turkish diplomatic source.

Bou Habib thanked Fidan for a Turkish shipment of medicine that arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday, the source added, and also briefed Fidan on the latest developments in Lebanon.

Separately, Fidan told a G20 foreign ministers meeting in New York that it was unclear whether the fighting between ******* and Hezbollah would spread further, though the world was facing a wider conflict.

Fidan also reiterated Ankara’s long-standing call to reform the U.N. Security Council to make it “fully effective,” adding Turkey wanted to see a structure in which “one country’s veto does not determine another’s destiny,” the source added.

The ******* States, Russia, China, France and Britain are the permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council. There are 10 non-permanent members that serve two-year terms.

(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; editing by Mark Heinrich and Jonathan Oatis)

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