THE Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, clarifying that the Turkey not going to change policy at Middle Easterndespite recent developments.
The Turkish president met with the Palestinian president for talks and a private dinner, as this is Abbas’s second visit to Turkey within a year.
As Reuters reported, Erdogan treated the Palestinian leader with great respect and helped him, holding his hand, down the steps covered with a turquoise carpet.
Speaking to reporters afterward, he said that “the measures taken in our relations with Israel do not undermine our support for the Palestinian struggle” and assured that Turkey always supports the two-state solution.
Abbas made no mention of Turkish-Israeli relations but thanked Erdogan for his support. “I would again like to express my gratitude for the fact that Turkey and the Turkish government are on the side of the Palestinians,” he said.
“The fact that we are normalizing our relations (with Israel) does not mean that Turkey will make concessions regarding the Palestinian struggle,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said earlier. “The dialogue must continue, even if we don’t agree on everything,” he added in an interview with the Turkish private channel Haber Global.
Source: News Beast
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