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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that Israel, utilizing an oft-used method of intelligence organizations, was seeking to move its conflict with Palestinians to Lebanon. Fidan was answering questions of Anadolu Agency (AA) on two days of pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Lebanon blamed on Israel. Fidan also commented on a fully recognized statehood for Palestine and said UN Security Council veto was the only thing hindering its accomplishment, as more countries now started unilaterally recognize it.
On normalizing ties with the Assad regime of Syria, Fidan said Türkiye had no issues with normalization but expected more steps from Syria. “They should make peace with people first,” he said. On Türkiye’s ties with European Union and its membership process, Fidan said rise of far-right in Europe would not overshadow them as relations were already in limbo.
“We always treated our relations with EU as if far-right was already in power,” he underlined. He said Europe cannot afford losing a strategic ally in Türkiye. Fidan lamented stalled process and said one of the reasons behind Türkiye’s outreach to BRICS was EU’s failure to further membership process.
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