Turkey: Establishing an Independent Palestinian State is an Indispensable Goal

Al-Taj News – The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, on Sunday, that establishing an independent, sovereign, and geographically contiguous Palestinian state, based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, is an “indispensable goal”.

This came in a post published by the ministry on the Turkish platform “NSosyal” on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of the declaration of the establishment of the State of Palestine.

The ministry said in its post: “We congratulate the friendly and brotherly State of Palestine on the 38th anniversary of the declaration of its establishment”.

It added: “Turkey will continue to stand in the face of all forms of injustice and oppression to which the Palestinian people are exposed”.

The establishment of the State of Palestine was declared on November 15, 1988, during the convening of the nineteenth session of the Palestinian National Council in the Algerian capital, where the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat recited the “Declaration of Independence” approved by the council.

The declaration came in the context of the First Intifada, which erupted in December 1987, and amid escalating Palestinian demands to end the Israeli occupation and establish an independent Palestinian state.