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India Rejects Erdogan's Kashmir Remarks at UNGA

Ministry of External Affairs states no external party has locus standi on the issue.

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'No locus standi': India rejects Turkey President Erdogan's remarks on Kashmir at UNGA

What this story says

  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the Kashmir issue during his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 29, 2026.
  • India's Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal rejected Erdogan's remarks as "unwarranted references" to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
  • Jaiswal stated that no external party has locus standi on the issue, as it pertains to India's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
  • Erdogan had previously mentioned Kashmir at the UNGA on September 22, 2026, calling for dialogue to resolve South Asian disputes.

Who covered it

Left 0%(0)Centre 11%(1)Right 89%(8)

Percentages are shares of the 9 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 6 of the 15 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

68/100

Craft

87/100

Hype

30/100

15 sources · methodology

Thin on the left so far

None of the 9 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the issue of Kashmir during his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 29, 2026. In response, India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated that no external party has locus standi on the matter. Jaiswal described Erdogan's references to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir as "unwarranted" during a bi-weekly press briefing in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Jaiswal asserted that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir is a matter of India's territorial integrity and sovereignty. He added that any references to it by external parties are rejected. Erdogan had previously spoken about Kashmir at the UNGA on September 22, 2026, suggesting that disputes in South Asia, including Kashmir, should be addressed through dialogue within the framework of the UN Charter and relevant resolutions.

Coverage comparison

What the coverage left out

None of the reports printed below mention the date of Erdogan's previous address to the UN General Assembly in September 2025, only that he had spoken about Kashmir then. The full reports from Times of India and Hindustan Times state that Erdogan previously mentioned Kashmir at the UNGA on September 22, 2026. No left-rated outlet ran this story.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 3 times, most recently on 29 Sept 2026, 16:00, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated left has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Centre

1 rated outlet

  • The Hindustan Times report led on India's rejection of Turkish President Erdogan's remarks, quoting MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal's assertion that the matter pertained to India's "sovereignty and territorial integrity" and that no external party had "locus standi" on the issue. The report also detailed Erdogan's previous statements on Kashmir at the UNGA in September 2025 and February 2025, noting India's consistent rejection of third-party mediation.

Right

8 rated outlets

  • Reports from the right-rated outlets focused on India's rejection of Turkish President Erdogan's remarks and the assertion that no external party has locus standi on the Kashmir issue. Headlines from Times of India, Republic World, Latestly, India Today, Tribune India, ABP News, and aninews.in highlighted this stance. The Times of India report also mentioned Turkey's past actions, including forming a military alliance with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and noted India's consistent stance against third-party mediation.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover India Rejects Erdogan's Kashmir Remarks at UNGA?
Of the 9 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 11% are rated centre, 89% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 15. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is India Rejects Erdogan's Kashmir Remarks at UNGA left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 9 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of India Rejects Erdogan's Kashmir Remarks at UNGA biased?
India Rejects Erdogan's Kashmir Remarks at UNGA is one event reported by 15 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting India Rejects Erdogan's Kashmir Remarks at UNGA?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered India Rejects Erdogan's Kashmir Remarks at UNGA?
15 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Turkey's President Erdogan say about Kashmir?
During his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 29, 2026, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the issue of Kashmir. He had previously spoken on September 22, 2026, suggesting that South Asian disputes, including Kashmir, should be resolved through dialogue within the UN framework.
How did India respond to Erdogan's remarks?
India's Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal rejected Erdogan's references to Jammu and Kashmir as "unwarranted." He stated that the issue concerns India's territorial integrity and sovereignty, and that no external party has any locus standi on the matter.
Has Turkey raised the Kashmir issue before?
Yes, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had previously mentioned Kashmir at the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2026. He also spoke about the issue in February 2025 during a visit to Pakistan, remarks which India had also rejected.

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15 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Centre

1

Right

8

Not rated

6

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