The OIC and Turkey's Cyprus Case

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The OIC and Turkey's Cyprus Case

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Thc Organization of the Islamic Confcrcnce (OIC) is an
inlcrgovernmcnlal organization hcadquartcrcd in Jcddah, Saudi Arabia. By
Dcccmbcr 1992 it had fifty-one mcmbcr statcs. According to its chartcr
approvcd in March 1972,1
it is composcd of thc Confcrcncc of Kings and
Hcads of State and Govcrnmcnt thc Confcrcnce of Foreign Ministcrs thc
General Sccrctariat, and subsidiary organs. Thc Confcrcncc of Kings and
Hcads of Slatc and Govcrnmcnt is thc supreme aulhority in thc Organization.
OIC vvas eslablishcd in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco, on Scptcmbcr
25, 1969, vvhen the leadcrs of the Islamic vvorld vvas convened in this city on
thc occasion of thc arson perpetrated on August 21, 1969, against thc
Mosque of Al-Aqsa, the third holy placc of islam, allcgcdly by thc Zionists.
According to its chartcr, thc Organization aims to "promote Islamic
solidarity" and to "consolidate co-opcration" among mcmbcr statcs in thc
political, cconomic, social, cultural, and scicntific ficlds. From this Charter's
pcrspcctivc, thc OIC is primaıily conccrncd vvith consolidating co-opcration
among its mcmbcr statcs on various Arab-Israeli problems ineluding thc
Palcstinian issuc. Evcnthough thc rcligion of islam is considcrcd in thc
chartcr as "...a strong factor for rapprochemcnt and solidarity bctvvcen Islamic
people...", the organization i ise 1 f is not a rcligious organization but a
political forum rcscmbling thc United Nations in terms of its rules of
proccdurc. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

• The OIC
• Turkey
• Cyprus Case