by Muhammet Emin Avundukluoglu
ANKARA (AA) - Amid unrelenting Assad regime attacks on Syrian regions such as Eastern Ghouta, Turkey’s president on Tuesday called the UN cease-fire resolution for Syria effectively meaningless.
"The recent incidents in Eastern Ghouta are hard to swallow, they do not befit humanity," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party lawmakers in parliament on Tuesday.
"God curse your resolution!" he said of the UN cease-fire. "The resolution that never went into effect has no meaning for humanity."
Erdogan accused the UN Security Council, which passed the 30-day cease-fire resolution on Feb. 24, of manipulating humanity.
Previously Erdogan has criticized the Security Council’s structure of five permanent members, arguing: “The world is greater than five.”
Despite the resolution, around 756 people have been killed in regime attacks in besieged Eastern Ghouta in the past two weeks, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency.
Eastern Ghouta, a Damascus suburb home to some 400,000 people, has been under siege for the last five years.
In the past eight months, Assad regime forces have intensified their siege of the enclave, making it nearly impossible for food or medicine to reach thousands of civilians in need.