An announcement from Hamas Friday stated Erdogan and Haniyeh would focus on the battle in Gaza.
Istanbul:
A frontrunner of Palestinian militant group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, arrived in Istanbul Friday night for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan because the demise toll in Gaza handed 34,000.
An announcement from Hamas Friday stated Erdogan and Haniyeh would focus on the battle in Gaza, including that the pinnacle of the group’s political bureau was accompanied by a delegation.
Center East tensions are at a excessive after Israel’s reported assault on Iran and Gaza bracing for a brand new Israeli offensive.
Erdogan insisted on Wednesday that he would proceed “to defend the Palestinian battle and to be the voice of the oppressed Palestinian folks”.
However speaking to journalists on Friday, he refused to be drawn on the main points on the assembly.
Turkish Overseas Minister Hakan Fidan was in Qatar Wednesday and stated he spent three hours with Haniyeh and his aides for “a large trade of views specifically about negotiations for a ceasefire”.
Qatar, a mediator between Israel and Hamas, acknowledged Wednesday that negotiations to finish hostilities in Gaza and liberate hostages have been “stalling”.
Fidan stated he spoke with Haniyeh, who lives in Qatar, about how Hamas — designated as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the US and the European Union — “should clearly specific its expectations, particularly a couple of two-state resolution”.
Erdogan’s final assembly with Haniyeh was in July 2023 when Erdogan hosted him and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on the presidential palace in Ankara. Haniyeh had final met Fidan in Turkey on January 2.
The struggle in Gaza began after Hamas’s unprecedented assault on Israel on October 7 that resulted within the deaths of about 1,170 folks, primarily civilians, in line with an AFP tally of official Israeli figures.
Militants additionally took about 250 hostages. Israel says round 129 are believed to be held in Gaza, together with 34 presumed lifeless.
Israel’s retaliatory navy marketing campaign has killed at the least 34,012 folks, principally girls and kids, in line with Gaza’s Hamas-run well being ministry.
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