Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Hamas leadership in Doha over the weekend. Turkey’s current leadership are backers of Hamas, and they have hosted Hamas leaders numerous times.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar over the weekend. The meeting came as the Turkish official was attending a ministerial meeting focusing on Turkey’s ties with the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Ankara’s current leaders are backers of Hamas and they have hosted the terrorist group’s leaders numerous times, including after the Hamas massacre of October 7. Turkey is also a member of NATO. It is one of two Western allies, along with Qatar, that support Hamas.
Fidan was proud of the meeting with the Hamas leader. He posted about it on the social media platform X. “Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan met with Ismail Haniyeh, Head of Hamas Political Bureau, on the margins of the Sixth Ministerial Meeting of Turkiye-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) High Level Strategic Dialogue, in Doha.”