President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Hamas Political Bureau Chairman İsmail Haniye at Dolmabahçe Working Office. The meeting started around 14.30 in the afternoon.
In the meetings with Haniye, in addition to the steps to be taken for a ceasefire, issues regarding increasing humanitarian aid to Gaza and delivering it more effectively and quickly were also discussed.
THE MEETING HAS ENDED
President and AK Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Hamas Political Bureau leader İsmail Haniye at the Dolmabahçe Working Office in Istanbul.
MİT President İbrahim Kalın, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan and Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun also attended the meeting between the delegations.
STATEMENT FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORATE
In the statement made by the Directorate of Communications, the following statements were made:
“Our President, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, received Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul.
During the meeting, issues related to Israel’s attacks on Palestinian lands, especially Gaza, what needs to be done to ensure adequate and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and a fair and lasting peace process in the region were discussed.
During the meeting, President Erdoğan said that Turkey continues its diplomatic efforts to draw the attention of the international community to the oppression of the Palestinians and that the need for an end to the brutality and an urgent permanent ceasefire is emphasized at every opportunity.
President Erdoğan stated that one day Israel will pay the price for the oppression it inflicts on the Palestinians, that Turkey will continue to explain the massacres in Gaza on every ground, and that all efforts are being made to establish the independent State of Palestine, which is the key to regional peace, and to bring permanent peace to the region. did.
President Erdoğan said that it is vital for Palestinians to act in unity in this process, that the strongest response to Israel and the way to victory is through unity and integrity, and that Palestine’s rightful cause and the facts should be told more against Israel, which misleads the international public opinion. .
During the meeting, President Erdoğan also stated that Turkey continues its humanitarian aid to Palestine in order to relieve the suffering to some extent, that more than 45 thousand tons of humanitarian aid has been shipped to the region to date, and that a number of sanctions have been implemented against Israel, including restrictions on trade.
Evaluating the tensions between Israel and Iran, President Erdoğan emphasized that the events should not gain ground for Israel and that it is important to carry out activities that will draw attention to Gaza again in order to prevent the atmosphere questioning Israel’s attacks in the West from dissipating.
During the meeting, President Erdoğan also expressed his condolences to Haniyeh for his children and grandchildren who were martyred in the Israeli attack.
“At the meeting, President Erdoğan was accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan, Director of the National Intelligence Organization İbrahim Kalın, Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, Chief Foreign Policy and Security Advisor to the President Ambassador Akif Çağatay Kılıç and Chief Advisor to the President Sefer Turan.”
MINISTER FIDAN MEETS WITH HIS EGYPTIAN NUMBER
Egyptian Foreign Minister Semih Şükri met with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Istanbul. The two ministers held a joint press conference after the meeting.
Minister Fidan used the following statements at the press conference:
“Our priority should be to end the Israeli occupation and implement the two-state solution formula. If this does not happen, the attacks from Yemen yesterday, the Iran-Israel tension today, another type of war tomorrow, another internal turmoil the next day, all of these will continue to happen. We, as Turkey, “We, along with other friendly countries such as Egypt, have always said the same thing from the beginning. If this crisis is not resolved in the way it deserves and the Palestinians are not given the state, independence and sovereignty they deserve, such crises will continue to increase in our region.”
