Turkis­h parlia­ment speake­r says Turkey has not forgot­ten friend­ship of Indian Muslim­s during indepe­ndence warANKARA: Turkey sees standing by Pakistan on the issue of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) as its duty, the Turkish parliament speaker said Tuesday. India and Pakistan hold Kashmir in parts and claim it in full. China also controls part of the contested region, but it is India and Pakistan who have fought two wars over Kashmir. Israel and PalestineSentop added that the Turkish nation condemned state terrorism carried out by Israel in Palestine. International law views both the West Bank and East Jerusalem as “occupied territories” and considers all Jewish settlement-building activity there as illegal.

Source: The Express Tribune October 02, 2019 08:59 UTC