
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that once the Israel-Hamas war ends, Gaza should be part of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state.
Turkey, which has escalated its criticism of Israel as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has intensified, supports a two-state solution and, unlike the US, Britain and other Western countries, does not consider Hamas a terrorist organization.
Turkey has called for an immediate ceasefire and offered to broker it.
Speaking to reporters on a plane ride back from Kazakhstan on Friday, Mr Erdogan repeated his criticism of Western countries for their support of Israel, saying Ankara's trust in the European Union had been "deeply shaken".
"Once this is over, we want to see Gaza as a peaceful region that is part of an independent Palestinian state, in accordance with the 1967 borders, with territorial integrity and with East Jerusalem as its capital," it was quoted as saying. said Mr. Erdogan by some media.
"We will support formulas that will bring peace to the region. We will not support plans that further worsen the lives of Palestinians, that gradually erase them from the stage of history."
He said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the sole author of the situation in Gaza, but that there cannot be a complete severance of relations in international diplomacy, " VOA " reports.
However, Ankara said later on Saturday it was recalling its ambassador to Israel, Sakir Ozkan Torunlar, for consultations after Israel withdrew its envoys to Turkey last month to reassess ties between the two countries after President Erdogan called the militants Hamas "freedom fighters".
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