Islamic world should act with fresh and new vision: Gul

This should be a vision where better management and transparency prevail, basic rights, freedom and gender equality are regarded as superior values and rude and rhetoric slogans don’t have place. Consequently, we should firstly put our domestic affairs in order," he said.
Gul said, "…and in most excessive situations, we find ourselves in destructive wars. Our geography that is full of conflicts has caused our economic development ability to suffer a serious weakness. Natural riches including oil revenues have been wasted and our attention has been focused on other issues instead of humanitarian development. Iraq experience is the most important example to this failure. We should not avoid defining our path. We have to encourage our systems for political participation. We are pleased to see that there has been a consciousness that has been gradually increasing in our societies about this issue in the direction of covering reforms and politics and that an action has been taken to this end. This matter will be the key to development of nations’ feeling of protecting their systems in which they live."
He added, "In this way, the modern and peaceful message of the Islamic countries can be dominant."
FM Abdullah Gul recalled that a new process had started in the Middle East. Gul noted that if that process was given a chance, comprehensive peace could be ensured in the Middle East. "Turkey exerted great efforts to avoid war in Iraq. We worked together with regional countries and OIC members and the western countries within that framework. Iraq’s national unity and territorial integrity should be protected, Iraq should co-exist with its people and neighbors in peace, and Iraq’s natural resources should belong to whole Iraqi people in order to ensure full sovereignty and settle peace in Iraq. International community will play a constructive role in assisting rebuilding of Iraq."
Gul also noted that Turkey encouraged that process and expressed belief that OIC members would support TRNC people. "Turkish community in Western Thrace should be fully granted the right to use their own language and fulfil the requirements of their own religion freely. Those two things should be totally ensured."