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Hamas leader Haniyeh to visit Turkey for talks with Erdogan

By Agencies 17 April 2024, 2:08 pm 12 Edit
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Hamas terrorist movement chief Ismail Haniyeh, prior to their meeting in Istanbul, February 1, 2020. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool/ File)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Hamas terrorist movement chief Ismail Haniyeh, prior to their meeting in Istanbul, February 1, 2020. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool/ File)

Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of the Palestinian Islamist terror group Hamas, will visit Turkey over the weekend to hold talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, broadcaster NTV says.

“I will host the leader of the Palestinian cause at the weekend. We will discuss a number of issues,” Erdogan earlier tells lawmakers from his AK Party in parliament, once again calling Hamas a “liberation movement.”

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