{"id":645,"date":"2017-08-29T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2017-08-29T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:42:06","slug":"turkey-says-israel-must-end-occupation-of-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/turkey-says-israel-must-end-occupation-of-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey says Israel must end occupation of Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel must stop its occupation of Palestinian territories, which he says undermines the so-called two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"92\">\n<p>\n\tErdogan made the remarks during a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ankara on Monday, according to Press TV.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Turkish president described the two-state solution as the \u201chistorical responsibility of the international community to the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe further expressed Ankara\u2019s readiness to support the efforts aimed at reviving the so-called peace process, stressing, \u201cthe key to success here is protecting the rights of the Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe last round of Israeli-Palestinian talks collapsed in 2014. Among the major sticking points in those negotiations was Israel\u2019s continued settlement expansion on Palestinian territories.\u00a0More recently, Israel has further compounded the situation by building settlements deeper in territory that the Palestinians want as a future state.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tErdogan said Turkey believed that the path to permanent peace was the realization of a\u00a0sovereign Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTouching on the tensions between Israelis and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in July, he said that \u201cthere is no benefit to anyone in increasing tension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAbbas, for his part, reiterated the Palestinians\u2019 right to \u201clive with dignity and sovereignty in an independent state with <em>Beit<\/em>-ul-<em>Moqaddas<\/em>as as its capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe also thanked Erdogan and the Turkish nation for their firm \u201cstance against the Israeli measures in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and their provocations of Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>\u2018Israel won\u2019t retreat on settlements\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t======<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMeanwhile, on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that none of the settlements built in the occupied West Bank would be evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe are here to stay forever. There will be no more uprooting of settlements,\u201d he said in the West Bank settlement of Barkan while addressing an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Israel\u2019s occupation of the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe development came a few days after a US delegation visited the occupied lands in a bid to get the Israelis and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNabil Shaath, Abbas\u2019 foreign affairs advisor, said the Americans had asked for a three-to-four-month \u201cgrace period\u201d in order to prepare and present a so-called peace plan.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAbout 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements built illegally since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn recent months,\u00a0Tel Aviv has stepped up its settlement construction activities in the occupied Palestinian territories in a blatant violation of international law and\u00a0in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Israel must stop its occupation of Palestinian territories, which he says undermines the so-called two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Erdogan made the remarks during a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ankara on Monday, according to Press TV. 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