Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hinted at an interest in acquiring nuclear weapons, telling the United Nations that it is unjust for the weapons to be possessed only by major powers.

“It bothers us like anyone else that the weapons of mass destruction are used as leverage in every crisis instead of their total elimination,” Erdoğan said Tuesday during the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “The position of nuclear power should either be forbidden for all or permissible for everyone.”