"The recent attacks against Lebanon and the recent statements made by Israel are a clear manifestation of the efforts to spread the war to the region," Erdogan said at an event hosted by the Turkish-American National Steering Committee (TASC) in New York.
Erdogan arrived in the US on Saturday to address the 79th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

The president also said that the genocide that Israel is carrying out on Palestinian lands, especially in the Gaza Strip, also threatens peace in the region.
"Global institutions and organizations have taken no effective steps to end the oppression in Gaza or prevent Israel's massacre," he added.
Stressing that the global system has begun to lose all its "effectiveness and credibility," Erdogan said institutions whose duty it is to ensure peace and security are "clearly in a state of moral collapse."
"The massacre that has been going on in Gaza for 352 days has shown this once again," he added.
Türkiye has been doing everything to stop this Israeli policy of "occupation, invasion and massacre as soon as possible."
"We have not remained silent and will not remain silent against any attack on the sanctity and historical status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, our first qibla," he stressed.

Israel's attacks against Lebanon are 'clear manifestation of efforts' to spread war: Turkish president