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Gaza-Turkey relations

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan talks to journalists during a news conference following a meeting about Gaza with his counterparts from Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia and United Arab Emirates, in Istanbul, Turkey, November 3, 2025. (Khalil Hamra/AP)
December 24, 2025, 7:54 pm
Turkey hosts Hamas officials as pro-government media casts Israel as ‘number one threat’
As Netanyahu hints Israel will prevent Ankara from acquiring F-35s, Turkish FM Hakan Fidan discusses Gaza ceasefire and humanitarian aid amid rising tensions
By Reuters, Stav Levaton and Lazar Berman
Bulldozers deployed by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Municipality clear building rubble from main axes and streets in Gaza City, amid a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian terror group, on October 14, 2025. (AFP)
October 27, 2025, 2:01 pm
As world powers prepare to rebuild Gaza, IDF said to dump trash across the border
Haaretz report finds Israeli trucks disposing of rubble inside the Strip; troops say they were told international forces would eventually clear it
By Stav Levaton, ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators take part in a rally to condemn the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, at Hagia Sophia Square in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 3, 2024. (Kemal Aslan/ AFP)
November 28, 2024, 1:39 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 28: Day 419 – As Turkey enters Gaza talks, is Israel thankful?
US bureau chief Jacob Magid on the lack of a buffer zone in the Lebanon ceasefire negotiations, allegations of held-up US weapons shipments and chances for a hostage release deal
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Members of Turkey's parliament vote to send Turkish troops to Libya to help the UN-supported government in Tripoli battle forces loyal to a rival administration in eastern Libya, January 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
July 10, 2024, 7:22 pm
Turkish Islamist party proposes bill punishing citizens who serve in IDF
Proposal by extremist party calls for revoking citizenship of Turkish nationals who fought in Gaza and for confiscating their assets
By ToI Staff
Turkish anti-riot police officers block the street where a plant owned by US giant Procter & Gamble is located at Gebze District in Kocaeli near Istanbul on February 1, 2024, after an assailant took an undisclosed number of people hostage. (Ozan Kose/AFP)
February 1, 2024, 10:00 pm
Turkey frees seven hostages taken by pro-Gaza gunman at factory near Istanbul
Suspect held people inside production plant owned by US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble; police raided the building when he took a bathroom break
By AFP and ToI Staff
Turkish President and the leader of the Justice and Development (AK) Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at his party's group meeting at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, on November 15, 2023. (Adem Altan/AFP)
November 15, 2023, 3:28 pm
Erdogan blasts Israel as a ‘terrorist state’ intent on ‘total destruction’ of Gaza
Netanyahu hits back: He’s suppporting ‘the terror state of Hamas’; Turkish president claims Israel committing worst attack on women and children ‘in all of history’
By ToI Staff
Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas premier in Gaza, left, and his Turkish counterpart, then-PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, salute lawmakers and supporters of Erdogan's Islamist Justice and Development Party at the Parliament in Ankara, Turkey, January 3, 2012. (AP)
December 15, 2019, 1:31 pm
Hamas delegation tells Erdogan of Gaza’s dire situation, Temple Mount ‘danger’
Officials led by Ismail Haniyeh praise the Turkish president for supporting the Palestinians, the terror group’s website reports; Al-Aqsa TV says Haniyeh to attend Malaysia summit
By Adam Rasgon
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters during a rally, February 26, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)
March 18, 2019, 5:04 pm
Erdogan says Yair Netanyahu influenced by ‘same source’ as New Zealand killer
PM’s son mentioned Constantinople, like mosque killer Brenton Tarrant, who used that name for the city in his manifesto
By ToI Staff
Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey, Eitan Na'eh, hands his credentials to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday, December 5, 2016. (courtesy Turkish Presidency)
May 17, 2018, 7:46 pm
Despite high intensity, Israel-Turkey spat could be over within months
Never mind the mutual humiliations and unprecedented diplomatic measures; neither side is interested in escalation
By Raphael Ahren
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a speech to teachers during a ceremony marking Teachers' Day, at Bestepe People's Congress and Culture Center in the Presidential Complex in Ankara, November 24, 2016. (AFP/ADEM ALTAN)
November 29, 2016, 10:31 pm
Erdogan urges Muslims to protect Jerusalem, support Palestinians
Turkish president says defense of Al-Aqsa Mosque should not be left to ‘children armed with stones’
By AP and ToI Staff
A picture taken on July 1, 2016 shows the Panama flagged ship Lady Leyla setting off from the southern port of Mersin. (AFP PHOTO / IHLAS NEWS AGENCY / HUSEYIN KAR)
September 6, 2016, 1:26 am
Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship arrives in Ashdod
Second delivery since Israel-Turkey reconciliation brings 120 containers for Hamas-run enclave
By ToI Staff
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) and Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Linas Linkevicius (L) give a joint press conference following their meeting at the Foreign Ministry Residence in Ankara, on August 22, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN)
August 23, 2016, 7:52 pm
Israel, Turkey to exchange ambassadors ‘in coming days’
Amid heated sparring over Israeli strikes on Gaza, Turkish FM Cavusoglu says countries formalizing renewal of ties
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Israel's Consul-General in Istanbul Shai Cohen (left) meets with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director-General Dore Gold and Bureau Chief Gilad Cohen on March 21, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. (MFA)
August 22, 2016, 9:07 pm
Israel: Turkey needs to think twice before leveling criticism at us
After Ankara’s denunciation of Gaza strikes, Jerusalem issues acerbic retort saying detente doesn’t mean Turkey can issue ‘baseless condemnations’
By ToI Staff
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, gestures as he welcomes Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto for a meeting in Ankara on August 23, 2016. (AFP/ADEM ALTAN)
August 22, 2016, 3:57 pm
Turkey: Restored ties won’t halt criticism of Israel on Gaza
Ankara foreign ministry denounces Israeli strikes on Palestinian enclave, days after ratifying reconciliation deal
By Tamar Pileggi
Palestinian children stand next to a crater in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 22, 2016, after an Israeli airstrike targets Hamas positions in response to rocket fire on Sderot. (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS)
August 22, 2016, 2:20 pm
Turkey backtracks on claim wedding bombed by Islamic State teen
Ankara says it has ‘no clue’ who carried out the bombing in Gaziantep that left 51 dead
By Sara Miller
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