'Fate of world's Muslims not in hands of 5 countries'

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia 

The fate of the world’s 1.7 billion Muslims is no longer in the hands of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Kuala Lumpur Summit in the Malaysian capital, Erdogan reiterated that the world is bigger than five, referring to the five permanent UN Security Council members, whose veto power could prove catastrophic for smaller nations.

“The world is bigger than five” is a famous slogan repeatedly used by Erdogan to criticize the permanent council members — China, France, Russia, the

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