ANKARA —
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Israel “can view Hamas as
a terrorist organization along with the West, but Hamas is not a terrorist
organization, it is a group of mujahideen defending their lands.”
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He was
speaking to a gathering of his
AK party in parliament on Wednesday. Erdogan
also said he is canceling plans to visit Israel because of its “inhumane” war.
"We had a plan to go to Israel, but it was canceled, we will not go,” he
said.
Turkey’s
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, speaking in Qatar, accused Israel of “a crime
against humanity” in its campaign in Gaza.
“Targeting
our
Palestinian brothers, including children, patients and the elderly, even in
schools, hospitals and mosques, is a crime against humanity,” he said,
alongside Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani.
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