Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Saturday with the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Istanbul.

The meeting was held closed in the presidential office at Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul. As reported by the official Anadolu Agency.

Haniyeh arrived in Istanbul yesterday after an invitation he received from Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan during their meeting in Doha.