Thank you for your powerful speech at the United Nations General Assembly that you delivered on behalf of everyone in Gaza. You shared photos of the daily desperation in Gaza and asked us to feel our own conscience to answer what reasonable reason could there be to explain this brutality in 2025?

We repeat the horrors of history without understanding why, but we also act, disrupt, intervene, rescue, and in the end prove we are human after all. 

Mr. President, would you call on National Defense Minister Yaşar Güler to designate a vessel from the Turkish Naval Forces to join the Italian Navy ship now assisting in safe passage for the Global Sumud flotilla? The flotilla claims to carry only humanitarian volunteers and survival aid for Gazans.

I respectfully urge you to mobilize your partnerships in the region to secure and galvanize a gateway to Gaza so the remaining people there may survive another day.

With respect, gratitude, and much hope,

Nancy Kivette