RIO DE JANEIRO
Turkey's prime minister said on Thursday that nobody could remain indifferent to massacre of the innocent.
Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said nobody could evade responsibilities in a world where children, women and civilians were massacred.
"When poverty, injustice, terrorism, and even state terrorism target the oppressed, nobody have the luxury to turn its back to the oppressed, remain indifferent and silent," Erdogan said during United Nations (UN) Rio+20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Erdogan said those who remain indifferent to problem threatening the world today should know that their children or grandchildren would have to deal with those problems sooner or later.
The premier said the world was facing problems like environmental pollution, climate change, global warming, poverty, drought and epidemics which were all caused by human beings.
"If we do not take measures, we cannot hand over a good world to our children," Erdogan said.
Erdogan said countries should consider global financial crisis a warning and find common solutions, adding that solidarity and cooperation were the only way out to counter problems threatening the entire humanity.
What the world needed was a global conscience, Premier Erdogan also said.
Erdogan later left Brazil for Turkey.
