December
17, 2017
Turkey
intends to open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
said on Sunday, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the
world to recognize it as the capital of Palestine.
It was not
clear how Turkey would carry out the move, since Israel controls all of
Jerusalem and calls the city its indivisible capital.
But
Palestinians want the capital of the state they seek to be in East Jerusalem,
which Israel took in the 1967 war and later annexed in a move not recognized
internationally.
The Muslim
nation summit was a response to President Trump’s Dec. 6 announcement that he
would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. That broke with decades of
American policy and with the international consensus that the city’s status
must be left to Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
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| President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, following President Trump’s example, said he would move his country’s embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Palace, via Reuters |
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