Turkey’s Foreign Affairs Ministry commended on Sunday a decision by the Palestinian Movement Hamas to disband an administrative committee it has formed to run the internal affairs of the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it welcomes the recent statement by Hamas announcing the dissolution of the Administrative Committee in Gaza.
The statement urged all parties to use this opportunity to turn a new page for the Palestinian people and prop up national consensus.
The ministry stressed Turkey’s unending support for Palestinian unity which it said makes part of the country’s tireless efforts to boost peace in the region.
Hamas said on Sunday that it had agreed to steps toward resolving a decade-long split with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement announcing it would dissolve a body seen as a shadow government and was ready to hold elections.
The statement comes after Hamas leaders held talks with Egyptian officials last week.
Hamas said it had agreed to a key demand made by Fatah: dissolving the so-called “administrative committee” created in March while saying it was ready for elections and negotiations toward a unity government. It called on the Palestinian Authority government based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank “to come to Gaza to exercise its functions and carry out its duties immediately”.
