Turkish President: we need fight terrorism together

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the 7th United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Global Forum in Baku that it is necessary to create an alliance to combat terrorism.

"As the international community, we are still very far from reaching goals that constitute the foundational aim of the alliance," Erdogan noted, adding that the international community also failed to overcome mentalities centered on prejudices, faiths, origins, and cultures, Daily Sabah reports.

"We also fail to show the common, resolved effort expected from us to fight radical movements and the terror fed by these movements," the President said.

"Terror has no place in our religion, and organizations such as Daesh which emerge in the name of Islam have nothing to do with Islam," Erdogan stressed.

Erdogan stressed that Syria is undergoing a state terror. "A terrorist that kills his countrymen with barrel bombs, shells, and tanks is in charge," he said, referring to Syria's Bashar Assad.