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He received the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkenwho is touring the region for the fourth time since the battle Al-Aqsa floodMeanwhile, Bloomberg quoted an American official as saying that Washington is seeking to mobilize Ankara’s support for plans to govern the Gaza Strip after the war.
The meeting took place in the presence of the Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan FidanAnd the head of the intelligence service, Ibrahim Qalan, and the American ambassador to Ankara Jeffrey Flake.
During Blinken’s last visit to Ankara at the beginning of last November, Erdogan did not meet him, and he criticized him personally because of his statements in which he said that he was visiting Israel because he was a Jew and not an ambassador to the United States, accusing him of seeking to convert… The Israeli aggression on Gaza For a religious war.
He also criticized Erdogan Washington Cruelly for its support for Israel, whose aggression against Gaza led to the martyrdom of more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians, most of whom were children and women.
Blinken met his Turkish counterpart earlier today, Saturday, and they discussed the Israeli aggression against Gaza and the worsening humanitarian crisis there due to Israeli practices, in addition to the file of Sweden joining NATO (NATO), according to a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
Blinken’s visit to Ankara comes after the US State Department set a reward of $10 million in exchange for information regarding 5 people whom Washington accuses of representing the financial network of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation), 3 of them have been residing in Türkiye for a long time.
Blinken arrived yesterday evening, Friday, to EIstanbul As part of a new regional tour, it also leads him to… Israel AndOccupied West Bank AndQatar To discuss ways to avoid the expansion of the conflict in the region after 3 months of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, and to push for the introduction of additional aid into the Gaza Strip.
Bloomberg News quoted a senior American official accompanying Blinken on his trip as saying that Washington is seeking to mobilize Ankara’s support for plans to govern Gaza after the war.
The same source added that Blinken will convey a message to the region that Washington will respond to attacks targeting its interests, adding that America expects the Arab partners to convey the message that Blinken carries to Iran.
Sweden file
Sweden’s accession to NATO is a pivotal issue in Blinken’s visit to Ankara. After the Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee approved Sweden’s joining the alliance, the Turkish Parliament still has not voted on the accession process.
Türkiye and Hungary are the only two countries in the alliance that are obstructing Sweden’s accession.
Ankara demands that Sweden extradite wanted persons Kurdistan workers’ party And preventing the activity of the party that Türkiye describes asEuropean Union America is considered a terrorist party.
Türkiye also demands the United States to extradite it F-16 aircraft which you paid for but did not receive, as successive US administrations claim that the US House of Representatives (Congress) Conflicts with completing the transaction.
It is noteworthy that the US administration can bypass Congress and suspend the requirement for Congress to review the deal, as it did when supplying weapons to Israel last month “under the pretext of the national interests of the United States.”
