"The extent to which the international humanitarian system lies broken is alarming," he wrote in an opinion piece published in Britain's Guardian newspaper. The United Nations said that the world has been facing the worst humanitarian crisis ever since the World War Two. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there needed to be improvements in how humanitarian aid is delivered. Erdogan has been among President Bashar al-Assad's fiercest critics and sees his removal as essential to ending Syria's war. Global leaders met in Istanbul on Monday to tackle a "broken" humanitarian system that has left 130 million people in need of aid, a near insurmountable task for a two-day summit that critics say risks achieving little.

Source: dna May 23, 2016 10:37 UTC