Turkish President and AKP Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Hamas Political Bureau chief İsmail Haniye on the Dolmabahçe Working Workplace in Istanbul.
MİT President İbrahim Kalın, Minister of Overseas Affairs Hakan Fidan and Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun additionally attended the assembly between the delegations.
In his speech on the AKP Group Assembly on April 17, Erdoğan introduced that he had spoken on the telephone with Haniye, who misplaced his kids and grandchildren on account of Israeli assaults, and that he would meet with him over the weekend. In the identical speech, President Erdogan in contrast Hamas to Kuvayi Milliye and referred to as Haniye the “chief of the Palestinian trigger.”
On April 19, President Erdoğan left unanswered the journalists' questions relating to the agenda of Haniye's go to and stated, “Let's hold the agenda between ourselves and Mr. Haniye and take our steps accordingly.”