Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday said his nation plans to open an embassy in east Jerusalem, a move that follows the United States’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
“God willing, the day is close when officially, with God’s permission, we will open our embassy there,” said Erdoğan, as reported by Reuters.
Erdoğan’s statement comes after he and other Muslim world leaders during a summit in Istanbul last week slammed the United States’s announcement about Jerusalem. Erdoğan at the summit reportedly called on countries to officially accept that Jerusalem is “the occupied capital of Palestine.”
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