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The Grand Turk

Turkey’s spy chief meets with Hamas leaders for talks on Gaza aid delivery

2025-04-20

[IsraelTimes] Turkish state media says Ibrahim Kalin and delegation from terror group also discussed efforts to reach permanent ceasefire in Strip

Turkey’s intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin met with Hamas leaders on Saturday for talks about how to deliver aid to war-ravaged Gaza where Israel resumed its military offensive last month.

Kalin held talks with Mohammad Darwish, head of the terror group’s political council and his delegation, Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency reported, without saying where the meeting took place. Media reports said it was in Turkey.

As well as discussing ways to deliver humanitarian aid, they also spoke of initiatives to secure a permanent ceasefire along with ways to counter any plans to forcibly displace Gaza’s population, Anadolu said, citing security sources.

Kalin reassured them of Turkey’s ongoing support and said Ankara would firmly oppose any new efforts to occupy or annex Palestinian territory.

That’s nice. What could Turkey actually do, other than screech?

Turkey has been a vocal supporter of Hamas throughout its current war with Israel, which began when several thousand Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called Israel a “terrorist state” and accused it of conducting a “genocide” in Gaza. In December, Erdogan called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “worse than Hitler,”

…yeah, yeah — someone let me know when he gets around to saying anything new and interesting…

said the systematic slaughter of six million Jews in the Holocaust was not as bad as Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, and likened Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the Strip to that of Jews rounded up in concentration and death camps.

The Turkish leader has been outspoken about his support for Hamas, claiming it is not a terrorist organization but a resistance group.

“No one can make us qualify Hamas as a terrorist organization,” he said in a speech last year. “Turkey is a country that speaks openly with Hamas leaders and firmly backs them.”

Posted by:trailing wife

#2 Hypocritical much? PKK are DoublePlus UnGood and Hamas are virtuous, ehh?

Posted by: magpie 2025-04-20 10:20

#1 Russians been talking about liberating Constantinople for 500 years. How about some action?

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-04-20 03:51

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