CHP leader vows to ‘establish peace’ in Mid East if elected

The joint presidential candidate of the opposition, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has reiterated his objective of establishing the "Organization of Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East" if he comes to power in the May polls, stressing that there is no reason why Türkiye, Iran, Iraq and Syria can't live together in peace.

"One can resolve all the problems once peace and social solidarity prevail," Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP), said a an iftar dinner hosted by Felicity Party (SP) leader Temel Karamollaoğlu for the ambassadors of the Islamic countries represented in Ankara late on April 10.

"We have decided to establish the Organization of Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East. Why can't Türkiye, Iran, Iraq and Syria can come together?" Kılıçdaroğlu said in his address to the ambassadors.

Kılıçdaroğlu questioned the divergence of opinions between the regional actors when it comes to resolving the problems of the region.

"The problems can perfectly be resolved. We can surely come together and exert a special effort to at least mitigate the pains of the people. We can do all these," he said.

Kılıçdaroğlu is running for the president on May 14 polls against incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Any contender needs to garner at least 50 percent plus one vote to be elected in the first round. Otherwise, the two top candidates of the first round will run for the run-off polls on May 28.

One of the most important problems of the Muslim world is the abandoning of science and knowledge, as it was the Islamic pioneers of the past centuries that had established the ground for scientific advancements in the world from sociology to mathematics, Kılıçdaroğlu recalled.

"A society starts to rot when it...