Davutoglu strongly condemns Israel

Speaking in Cairo during a ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu strongly condemned Israel for its "continued expansion of illegal settlements" and urged Israel to stop its provocative and unlawful settlement policy and accept revitalization of the peace process, which will yield freedom and sovereignty to the Palestinian state with its pre-1967 borders and Jerusalem as its permanent capital. Touching on Syria, Davutoglu said that the monthly average of the death toll has surpassed 5,000 and thus the total number of casualties has climbed to more than 60,000. Stating that four million people inside Syria were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Davutoglu said that the brutal Syrian dictatorship must leave the scene as early as possible to open up the way for democratic transition in accordance with the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people.