According to Rohama, the Turkish parliament speaker defined on Saturday, Jan 31, Islamophobia as intentional.

Turkey's Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin said that Islamophobia was being fed by unconscious and prejudiced campaigns.

"Islamophobia is considered an unjust, wrong and intentional discourse," Sahin said during the Fourth Conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Kampala, Uganda.

Sahin said the decision of Switzerland to ban minarets indicated that decisions and practices against Islam would continue.

The Islam world was facing many problems, Sahin said, and enumerated them as the Middle East peace process and the Palestinian dispute; situation in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen; concerns over Iraq's future; and injustice Muslims were facing in Cyprus, Western Thrace, Caucasus and other parts of the world.

Sahin said parliaments should assume significant roles to counter prejudice against the Muslim world, and Turkey was showing its reaction in all platforms.

"This fight we will give against this mentality fed by prejudices will be a challenging one," he said.

Sahin referred to Israeli-Palestinian dispute during his speech, and said that all channels of peace process had to be revived.

"Jewish settlement initiatives, which constitute the biggest obstacle before the peace process, should be ended, restrictions on movement of the Palestinians in West Bank should be lifted, and construction of the wall should be stopped," he said.

Sahin said Turkey had not remained indifferent to developments in Gaza, and would continue to react.

The parliament speaker said humanitarian assistance to the region should be sent to the region without interruption and the human tragedy should be ended.