Erdogan, Palestinian Authority president discuss Gaza ceasefire in Turkey

NEWS WIRES

15 August 2024 at 0:08 am·1-min read

Meeting behind closed closed doors on Wednesday, Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed steps to a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel's conduct in the enclave since the October 7 attacks and what Erdogan described as the West's "silence in the face of the soaring death toll" in Gaza.

Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas met with Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday in Ankara for talks on a ceasefire and peace, a day after a visit to Moscow.

The closed-door talks come at a tense time during the 10-month Israel-Hamas war, with faltering efforts for a ceasefire and Israel braced for threatened attacks from Iran and its proxies following killings of senior Hamas officials in Iran and Lebanon.

Abbas and Erdogan discussed "the massacres committed by Israel in Palestinian territories" as well as "steps that need to be taken for a permanent ceasefire and peace" during their meeting at the presidential palace, according to Erdogan's office.

He has also criticised the Western world for failure to pressure Israel to stop the war.

The Telegraph
Rayner strikes £150m deal with Britain’s biggest housebuilder to build new garden towns
Angela Rayner, the Housing Secretary, has struck a £150m deal with Britain’s biggest housebuilder to build a string of new garden towns and villages across the country as ministers seek to ramp up their ambitious housing plans.
HuffPost
Donald Trump Botches New BFF Elon Musk’s Name And You Know What Happened
Hilarity ensued over the former president's latest stumble.
HuffPost UK
Health Secretary Cornered By Graph Putting £22bn 'Black Hole' In Perspective
Labour want to reduce winter fuel payments for pensioners to plug the gap in government finances.
HuffPost
Ex-GOP Lawmaker Blows The Whistle On Trump's 'Very Vile' Plan To Beat Kamala Harris
Former Rep. David Jolly said Trump "has no ground to gain," leaving him with just one strategy.
The Independent
Winter fuel allowance latest: Starmer blasted by union over cut as Reeves set for showdown with Labour rebels
Unite chief accuses PM of ‘picking the pocket of pensioners’ as RMT’s Mick Lynch warns of ‘historic mistake’
The Guardian
Teacher ‘sick with nerves’ over battle to remain in his Spanish home post-Brexit
Mark Saxby, 56, says he is in limbo because of Spanish authorities’ ‘petty’ concern about his medical insurance
The Telegraph
Pensioners will be £1,700 better off, Rachel Reeves tells winter fuel rebels
Rachel Reeves says pensioners are on course for a £1,700 boost under Labour as she tries to counter a rebellion over winter fuel payment cuts.
Business Insider
Satellite images show damage at Russian base that stored glide bombs after Ukrainian long-range strike
Ukraine targeted a base inside Russia that stored fuel, ammunition, and glide bombs with long-range attack drones last month.
HuffPost UK
BBC Breakfast Presenter Reminds Minister Of 1 Key Thing About Cutting Winter Fuel Payments
"They are choices! They are decisions! This is a decision your government is making," Sally Nugent pointed out, repeatedly.
The Guardian
Joy derision: Democrats turn Trump’s deadliest weapon against him
As once-prolific nicknamer Trump fails to land a hit, Democrats set good manners aside in favour of ridicule
The Daily Beast
Reporter: What I Learned When Trump Let Me Inspect His Ear
Donald Trump’s ear that was injured in July’s assassination attempt appears to be just fine after all—at least according to a reporter who had an unusually intimate encounter with it.New York Magazine reported Monday that, in a sit-down interview at Mar-a-Lago, the journalist Olivia Nuzzi got a very detailed look at Trump’s right ear—the one he infamously bandaged up for the RNC—and declared that it appeared to be “normal” and “fine.” “An ear had never appeared to have gone through less,” wrote
The Telegraph
David Knowles, journalist behind Telegraph’s Ukraine war podcast, dies aged 32
David Knowles, the Telegraph journalist behind the award-winning Ukraine: The Latest podcast, has died.
INSIDER
Trump said Mark Zuckerberg told him there's 'no way I can vote for a Democrat' after the assassination attempt. But Zuckerberg is pushing back on that.
A spokesman for Meta said that Zuckerberg has "not communicated to anybody how he intends to vote" and will not endorse either candidate.
Business Insider
The plot to topple Putin
A growing army of Russian expats want to take back Russia. Can they succeed?
The Daily Beast
John Oliver Roasts JD Vance for Embarrassing Himself With Awful Harris Joke
John Oliver returned to Last Week Tonight from his customary end-of-summer hiatus only to find more evidence of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s bad behavior. A resurfaced clip from Vance’s 2022 U.S. Senate campaign showed him “flop-sweating through some shitty jokes about Kamala Harris,” Oliver said.Speaking to Ohioans during a campaign stop two years ago, Vance wondered aloud about a potential President Harris should Joe Biden step down and first tried insulting the current VP a
Manchester Evening News
Dad-of-two hurled racist chants so judge threw book at him
Jordan Gibson sighed and scoffed throughout the court hearing
HuffPost
'Very Troubled And Very Desperate': Trump Biographer Spots 1 Key Change
The former president has begun offering "convoluted explanations" during his speeches for a reason, Tim O'Brien said.
CNN
Trump calls for modifying 25th Amendment to make it possible to remove a vice president
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday called for modifying the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution and said if a vice president “lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president” they should be removed from office.
The Daily Beast
Melania Trump Breaks Silence to Complain About 2020 Defeat
Melania Trump sort of teased her upcoming memoir again Sunday in a text-based video with voiceover, in which she bemoans the cost of living in America and attempts to “silence” her husband, former President Donald Trump, before a cut to an image of the cover of Melania."The 2020 election results changed our lives forever,” said Melania in the video, posted to her X account Sunday, with each word illustrated in an italicized serif font. “It impacted our quality of life, cost of food, gasoline, sa
Reuters
Poland neutralises sabotage group linked to Belarus and Russia
Polish security services have neutralised a sabotage operation orchestrated by Russia and Belarus that aimed to destabilise Poland, Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said on Monday. Warsaw has repeatedly accused Moscow of attempting to destabilise Poland because of its role in supplying military aid to its neighbour Ukraine, allegations Russia has dismissed. Saboteurs, operating from Belarus in cooperation with Russia, penetrated local and central government institutions, including state-owned companies implementing military contracts, he said.

Latest stories