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[Kailash Kumar]

Erdoğan meets with Hamas leaders, including Saleh al-Arouri, in Istanbul

August 23 2020

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Hamas leadership in Istanbul on Aug. 22.

The group’s leader Ismail Haniyeh and its number two figure Saleh al-Arouri, who was designated as a terrorist by the U.S. and has a $5 million bounty on his head, attended the meeting.

Turkish National Intelligence Agency (MİT) head Hakan Fidan, Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun and presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın were also present.

The meeting was held amid escalated cross-border tensions between Israel and Hamas.

“The Egyptians, the Qataris and [U.N. Middle East envoy] Nickolay Mladenov have stepped up their efforts in order to restore calm, but calm can only come if Israel agrees to demands presented by Hamas and other factions,” a Palestinian official told Reuters on Aug. 21.

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Erdoğan meets with Hamas leaders, including Saleh al-Arouri, in Istanbul

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Hamas leadership in Istanbul on Aug. 22. The group's leader Ismail Haniyeh and its number two figure Saleh al-Arouri, who was designated as a terrorist by the U.S. and has a $5 million bounty on his head, attended the meeting. The meeting was held amid...

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[Microsoft]

Oh boy I was in the 'Erdogan is a hypocrite for throwing sissy fit at UAE-Israel relations!' camp but this is a slap in the face.
This guy is a madman!

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Oh boy this is going to piss off Russia, Egypt, UAE, France, Greece, Israel, Bahrain, the US.

 

[himate]

Whatcha gonna do about it???

 

[Rafi]

I wonder how Erdo can walk with a set of balls that big, the guy must have a fcking wheelbarrow.

 

[himate]

Your Bullshit sarcasm aside. Erdogan does what he think is moral and doesn't care if enemies of Allah like it or not.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Sanctions coming Turkey's way? Maybe no more F110 engines for TF-X? If I were Erdogan I be careful not to meet Hamas.

 

[casual]

the dude's got balls... i'll give him that.

 

[Dante80]

Oh boy this is going to piss off Russia, Egypt, UAE, France, Greece, Israel, Bahrain, the US.

In what way would this piss off Greece? The sentiment here has been pro-palestinian..for forty years now (see Arafat-Papandreou for an example).
Greece has historical ties of friendship and solidarity with the Palestinian people