Turkey: Hamas will not allow Israel to act against Israel from its territory

The Foreign Ministry rejected the Telegraph report, saying that Ankara is turning a blind eye to planning land attacks. However, he defended his ties with Hamas. "Most of the international community doesn't see it as a terrorist organization"

Turkey: Hamas will not allow Israel to act against Israel from its territory

Turkey denied Thursday that it is allowing Hamas to act against Israel, following an investigation by the British Telegraph that the Palestinian organization is planning terror attacks in the knowledge of the Ankara authorities. Turkey's Foreign Ministry statement says it rejects "the claim that Turkey's territory is used against Israel or any other country."

In a statement posted in the Foreign Ministry's Twitter account, Ankara defended its relations with Hamas, saying that most of the "international community does not define it as a terrorist organization but as the one who won the Gaza Strip election in 2006". It is also worth mentioning that "the UN General Assembly refused to set up a terrorist organization last year. A number of countries, including Turkey, have ties with Hamas at various levels. "

Israel has been worried for a long time about Hamas activity on Turkey's land, whose relations with it have never recovered since the 2010 Marmara flotilla. According to the Telegraph, Israeli police investigations with suspects indicate that Hamas officials are operating from Istanbul and are planning attacks against Israel, including a plot to assassinate the former mayor of Jerusalem and Knesset member Nir Barkat. Turkish intelligence has also been reported to be in close contact with Hamas, whose leaders Ismail Haniyeh met last Saturday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul.

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