The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, will visit Turkey between August 14-15, the Turkish Presidency announced on Wednesday.

Abbas will meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, then address Parliament in Ankara the following day, Turkish Presidency spokesman Fahrettin Altun said on the X social network. According to the Turkish media, President Erdogan had invited Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to Turkey in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s invitation to the US Congress the previous week, an initiative strongly criticized by Ankara. Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Hamas’s rival Fatah movement, had already visited Turkey in early March at President Erdogan’s invitation.

On Wednesday, the Turkish head of state condemned the “perfidious assassination” in Teheran of his “brother” Ismail Haniyeh, killed in a strike attributed to Israel by Hamas and Iran. Ismail Haniyeh, who was a frequent visitor to Turkey before the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, had been received in April by President Erdogan, a fervent supporter of Hamas, which he considers a “liberation movement”.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Newsletter signup

Please wait...

Thank you for sign up!