Erdogan and Zapatero made their proposal to create the “Alliance” at the 59th UN General Assembly circa 2005 ...
This also spawned the Cordoba Initiative / Ground Zero Mosque nonsense. The imam in that fiasco was a backer of the GAza Flotilla where the IHH, a Turkish group on board one of the vessels, and apparently some leftwing loons jumped the Israelis coming on board.
Another guy KOfi Annan got involved in the “Alliance was named Riza. Riza was also involved in Oil For Food and is notable for the vast number of documents he shredded to keep ahead of any investigation, not that the investigators were ever serious.