{"id":15358,"date":"2024-03-03T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15358"},"modified":"2024-03-03T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:50:42","slug":"abbas-to-visit-turkey-over-gaza-palestinian-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/abbas-to-visit-turkey-over-gaza-palestinian-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbas to Visit Turkey Over Gaza, Palestinian reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Turkey next week for talks about the Gaza war and reconciliation efforts between Palestinian factions, the Turkish foreign minister said on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe visit comes as intensive diplomacy is underway to pause the fighting in the almost five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas sparked by the Palestinian militant group\u2019s October 7 attacks.<br \/>\nEgypt, Qatar and the United States have mediated in weeks of talks to secure a truce by the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in a week.<br \/>\nTurkey\u2019s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said: \u201cThere is a serious desire and effort to reach a ceasefire before Ramadan,\u201d in closing remarks to an annual diplomacy forum in the Mediterranean holiday resort of Antalya.<br \/>\nFidan confirmed that Abbas would visit the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a vocal advocate of the Palestinian cause.<br \/>\nBoth leaders would discuss \u201cthe developments in Palestine, the current course of the war as well as the intra-Palestinian\u201d dialogue, Fidan said.<br \/>\nHamas, designated a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, is a rival of Abbas\u2019 Fatah faction that rules the semi-autonomous Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank.<br \/>\nIt ousted Fatah from Gaza in 2007 following its landslide victory in the last Palestinian parliamentary elections the previous year.<br \/>\nErdogan has become one of the harshest critics of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.<br \/>\nHe has branded Israel a \u201cterrorist state\u201d and compared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler while calling Hamas \u201ca liberation group.\u201d<br \/>\nGaza militants also abducted 250 hostages, of whom 130 remain in captivity according to Israel, a figure that includes 31 presumed dead.<br \/>\nIsrael\u2019s retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 30,410 people, mostly women and children, according to Gaza\u2019s health ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Turkey next week for talks about the Gaza war and reconciliation efforts between Palestinian factions, the Turkish foreign minister said on Sunday. The visit comes as intensive diplomacy is underway to pause the fighting in the almost five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas sparked by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15360,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358\/revisions\/15360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}