In a Wednesday telephone name, the highest Turkish and Qatari diplomats each repeated their denunciation of yesterday’s provocation at Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israel’s new nationwide safety minister, mentioned an official Turkish assertion.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani mentioned Tuesday’s “raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque and recent developments in Syria and Afghanistan,” mentioned the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
“During the phone call, the Ministers reiterated their condemnation regarding the provocative act of Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security of Israel, at Al-Aqsa Mosque yesterday,” mentioned the ministry.
Adding that the 2 officers additionally exchanged views on developments in Syria, it mentioned Çavuşoğlu and Al Thani expressed “their mutual concern about the Afghan (Taliban) Caretaker Government’s recent ban on women’s access to education and their exclusion from certain areas of work in Afghanistan.”
Çavuşoğlu additionally “congratulated his counterpart for the successful organization of 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.” Turkish forces additionally helped present safety throughout the occasion, the first-ever World Cup hosted by a Muslim and Arab nation.
On Tuesday, regardless of warnings that doing so would stir unrest, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque advanced.
For Muslims, Al-Aqsa represents the world’s third-holiest website. Jews, for his or her half, name the world the Temple Mount, saying it was the positioning of two Jewish temples in historic instances.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the place al-Aqsa is positioned, throughout the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the complete metropolis in 1980, in a transfer by no means acknowledged by the worldwide neighborhood.
