Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan held phone calls with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Erdogan's Russian counterpart on Tuesday, as Ankara renewed its offer to mediate and soothe tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.
In separate phone calls, Erdogan discussed Turkey's possible mediation efforts and steps to prevent increasing the tensions in the conflict with Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to statements by the Turkish presidency.
"I'm having talks with regional leaders and leaders from other countries and trying to figure out how we can mediate and how we can stop this war," Erdogan said in a joint press conference with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Ankara. Turkey, which backed Palestinians in the past and hosted members of Hamas, had been working to mend ties with Israel after years of animosity before the latest violence.
Turkey and Israel often traded barbs on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict prior to normalisation of relations that led to reappointment of envoys last year.
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