New Delhi: Pakistan, which has been trying to raise the Kashmir issue every year in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), has had to face defeat this time. The biggest blow to Pakistan has been given by its friendly country Turkey's President Recep Erdogan who did not mention Kashmir in his speech in the UNGA. Whereas for the last five years, the President of Turkey has been continuously raising the issue of Kashmir.

The Turkish President has mentioned Kashmir in every speech at the UNGA from 2019 to 2023 and has often made sharp attacks on India.

No mention of Kashmir

On knowing about the abolition of Article 370, Erdogan supported Pakistan and said that peace cannot be established in South Asia without resolving the Kashmir issue. After this, he demanded its solution on the basis of the United Nations resolution. But this year, he raised the issue of Gaza but did not mention Kashmir.

Occupy Kashmir

Pakistan has also received help from Malaysia in the past on Kashmir. In 2019, the then PM Mahathir Mohammad had baselessly accused India of occupying Kashmir in his speech at the UNGA. No other PM of Malaysia after Mohammad did so, nor is it likely to do so this year.

Because of this the Kashmir issue was not raised

Last year, Erdogan participated in the G-20 summit held in New Delhi and also had a bilateral meeting with PM Modi. Since then, the attitude of the Erdogan administration has changed. Due to raising the Kashmir issue, India had slowed down the pace of cooperation in the defense and business sectors. Now there are indications that talks on these can move forward again.