Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a phone call with the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday said that Turkey will always support the Palestinian people and their just cause.
According to statements by the Turkish president’s office Erdoğan and Abbas discussed the bilateral relations and the latest developments in the Palestinian political arena during the phone call.
For his part Abbas congratulated Erdoğan and Turkey on the discovery of major natural gas reserves in the Black Sea and hailed Turkey’s success as Palestine’s success.
Later in the day Erdoğan met with a Palestinian delegation from Hamas led by the head of the movement’s political bureau Ismail Haneyya in Istanbul City.
The meeting was attended by senior Hamas and Turkish officials and addressed recent issues.
