U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Ankara on Monday to discuss efforts to expand humanitarian aid in Gaza, and to prevent the war between Israel and militant Palestinian group Hamas from spreading.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara, Turkey, November 6, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/PoolANKARA, Nov 6 -
The meeting between Blinken and Fidan lasted two and a half hours, a U.S. State Department official said. No talks took place between Blinken and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who has criticised Washington over its "unlimited support to Israel". Blinken said at the airport that the United States has made some good progress on humanitarian assistance to Gaza.
Asked what concrete progress he has made during his tour of the region, Blinken pointed to efforts to avoid a regional escalation: "Sometimes the absence of something bad happening may not be the most obvious evidence of progress, but it is," he said.its criticism of Israel as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has deepened. It also hosts members of Hamas, which is viewed as a terrorist organisation by some Western countries but not by Ankara.
"World states are supporting the massacres and genocides that Israel is committing in the region by patting Israel on the back but the peoples of Europe, America and our country are on the side of Palestine."
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