The leaders of Turkey and Iran underlined their support for the Hamas terrorist organization on Wednesday, launching bitter attacks against both Israel and its Western allies on the sidelines of a summit meeting in Uzbekistan.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi made their comments while attending the meeting in Tashkent of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), which brings together Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and other nations in central Asia.

While the intensifying conflict in Gaza was not the focus of the meeting, Erdoğan and Raisi arrived in Tashkent determined to make Israel’s military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel its main focus.

In his speech to the summit, the Turkish leader called on Muslim countries to “raise our voices together to defend our Palestinian cause,” targeting Western countries for their alleged “hypocrisy.”

“The Israeli administration, which has the full support of Western countries … is bombing schools, hospitals, churches, universities, and civilian settlements,” Erdoğan stated.

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