Turkish PM to visit Gaza in May
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will probably visit Gaza after his trip to Washington to meet U.S. President Barack Obama on May 16, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
"It will probably take place after my visit to America," he told reporters in response to questions about his intention to visit Gaza.
Erdogan's statement came a few days after he met U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Istanbul. Kerry advised the Turkish side to reconsider the timing of the prime minister's planned visit to Gaza.
Earlier in his remarks following the Israeli apology to Turkey over the Mavi Marmara incident of 2010, Erdogan said that he planned to go to the enclave in April.
In the meantime, Erdogan also announced that Kerry will pay another visit to Turkey in two weeks, this time to attend an international meeting on Syria.
The meeting will bring together 11 countries which established the core group of the Friends of the Syrian People in a bid to boost the international community's efforts to topple the Bashar al-Assad regime. Kerry already visited Turkey twice in less than two months since his appointment as the secretary of state.
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