President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at the UN's 81st General Assembly; he criticized Mahmoud Abbas's absence from the hall and said the UN has been rendered unable to fulfill its mandate. Following his remarks on Gaza, Israel's UN envoy left the hall.
Erdoğan, who began his speech by thanking Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stated that 250,000 people have died in Gaza and called for reform of the UN Security Council based on the principle that "the world is bigger than five."