According to the London Telegraph, the hot relationship between the Erdogan administration and the terrorist organization allows its members to move freely around the world • The Turkish government denies

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The hot relationship between the Erdogan administration and the Hamas leadership and sponsorship of Palestinian terrorism from Ankara has long been known to all, but exposure by the London Telegraph shows that Turkey grants citizenship to senior Hamas figures, allowing them easy movement around the world.

According to the report, 12 senior members of the terrorist organization enjoy privileges: one of them has received Turkish citizenship that includes a number of identities, another seven have received both identity cards and passports, and the rest are in the process of obtaining citizenship. The Telegraph notes that some of them even took Turkish names - which may make it difficult to try to track down their terrorist activities.

"These are not infantry, but some of the most senior Hamas operatives outside the Gaza Strip," a senior official in the area told the Telegraph, adding that the same senior officials "raise funds and work to carry out terrorist attacks."

"The Turkish government has come under pressure from Hamas to grant citizenship to its operatives, thus allowing them to move more freely - at the risk of other countries defining Hamas as a terrorist organization." A Turkish government spokesman declined to comment for comment, saying "these are unfounded allegations against Turkey by a foreign government."

"The granting of citizenship is in addition to the hospitality that Erdogan gave to the Hamas leadership in his palace," Dr. Chai Eitan Cohen Inrojek, from the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University and the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, told Israel Today.

"Erdogan is a Muslim Brotherhood man and once you look at the map of relations in the Middle East you see that he is a partner of Qatar. The Turkey-Qatar-Hamas triangle is between three strategic allies."

In the context of normalization between Israel and the UAE, he added that "following the proxy war in Libya between Turkey and the UAE - Erdogan sees them as his enemy, and although he has an ambassador in Tel Aviv - he is trying to take advantage of the normalization agreement to present himself as the 'big boss'. "Of the Palestinian struggle."