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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for the abolition of the veto power held by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, urging comprehensive reform of the body’s current structure.
In an opinion article published by Bloomberg on Tuesday, Erdoğan argued that the existing international decision-making system no longer reflects today’s political and economic realities.
He criticised the special privileges enjoyed by the Security Council’s five permanent members—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States—and said simply adding more permanent members with veto rights would not resolve the underlying problem.
Instead, Erdoğan proposed a Security Council without permanent members. Under his proposal, countries would be elected by the UN General Assembly to serve fixed and rotating terms.
He also called for strengthening the authority of the General Assembly and making the Security Council more accountable to the wider UN membership.
Erdoğan has long promoted the slogan “The world is bigger than five,” arguing that the UN’s decision-making structure should better reflect the interests of the broader international community.
His latest proposal comes amid renewed international debate over reform of the Security Council, including demands for greater representation for developing countries and regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.
However, Russia has taken a different position, supporting an expansion of permanent membership while insisting that the existing veto powers should be retained.
