According to a message broadcast in the capital, the president acknowledged the need to “exercise common sense and quickly ensure calm in the region, which is of great importance to the well-being of all the countries that inhabit it.”
According to Erdogan, Turkey will intensify its efforts to end the confrontation, because it is “already acquiring grave and dangerous dimensions,” thus “ensuring peace.”
He also stressed that his country will make the necessary diplomatic efforts, with the aim of ending the confrontation and reducing tensions. He also called on the parties to exercise “moderation.”
Erdogan previously spoke about the dispute with the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, after a break during a meeting of the Turkish Executive Authority, based in Ankara.
On other occasions, the President declared that peace in the Middle East is only possible if Palestine becomes independent, referring to the implementation of the 2012 UN resolution on the establishment of a sovereign state.
Since last October 7, rocket attacks have begun against Israel from the Gaza Strip, an operation that the senior leadership of the Hamas movement described as a response to the aggressive actions against Al-Aqsa Mosque in downtown Jerusalem.
Following Israel’s response – a state that has continued its historic oppression and occupation of Palestinian territories over the past 75 years – more than 1,300 people were killed and nearly six thousand injured on both sides of the border.
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