2024-04-18 10:40:39
Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, will travel to Turkey over the weekend for talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the television channel NTV announced on Wednesday.
“I will meet the leader of the Palestinian cause this weekend. We will discuss some issues,” Erdogan told AK Party MPs, again calling Hamas a “liberation movement”.
The head of state did not specify the location of the meeting, but according to Turkish officials it should take place on Saturday at the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul.
Visiting Qatar on Wednesday, where the Hamas leader lives, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced that he met with Haniyeh “and members of his political bureau for three hours” for a “broad exchange of views, that especially in relation to the negotiations for a ceasefire. .
“We see that many actors in the West are concerned about Hamas […] and that Israeli propaganda compares Hamas to [groupe terroriste] The Islamic State [EI] and not a resistance movement [nom que se donnent les groupes terroristes islamistes anti-Israël] works,” he said.
“We talked about what to do and how [le Hamas] He should make his expectations clear, especially regarding the two-state solution to change this attitude,” he said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (center) arrives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, March 14, 2024. (Hadi Mizban/AP)
Qatar, one of the mediators in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, admitted on Wednesday that the negotiations aimed at stopping the hostilities in Gaza and freeing Israeli hostages are “stalled”.
“Even if only I, Tayyip Erdogan, remain, I will continue as long as God gives my life to defend the Palestinian struggle and be the voice of the Palestinian people under pressure,” the Turkish president sent, qualifying Hamas again for “group resistance”.
The head of state, who has increased his aggression against Israel since October, considered that the Israelis had defeated Hitler by being guilty of the death of “14,000 innocent children” in the Gaza Strip.
His last tête-à-tête in Turkey with Haniyeh dates back to the summer of 2023: the leader of Hamas was received at the presidential palace in Ankara on July 26 at the same time as the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas .
On April 10, Erdogan expressed his condolences to the leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, whose three sons and four grandchildren were killed in the Gaza Strip in an attack claimed by the Israelis.
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