Washington: Turkey's relationship with Hamas to isolate it from international community

The Ministry Spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus confirmed in a statement that the U.S. administration is strongly opposed to the Turkish President Erdogan hosting two Hamas leaders in Istanbul on August 22^nd.

She also explained that the United States considers Hamas a terrorist organization, and has previously set a reward for information that would lead to the arrest of one of the two members of the organization that Erdogan had met before.

This U.S. position came after the Turkish president received on Saturday the head of the political bureau of "Hamas", Ismail Haniyeh, and his accompanying delegation at the "Vahid al-Din" palace in Istanbul.

It is reported that despite the Turkish statements and Ankara's stances towards Hamas, Turkey maintains extensive commercial, economic and tourism relations with Israel.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last February that the positions taken by the Turkish president towards him in public differ in the field of commercial relations between their two countries. He added during a meeting with the Likud Party that he may be "the only Israeli who does not travel to Turkey," according to what was quoted by the "Jerusalem Post" at the time.

He also pointed out that Erdogan "used to call him Hitler every 3 hours, but he reduced that later and started doing it every 6 hours, but despite that, trade (between Turkey and Israel) is brisk."

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