Turkiye ruling party demands cancellation of twinning between Izmir, Tel Aviv

The Justice and Development Party bloc in the Izmir Municipal Council (on the Aegean Sea in western Turkiye) is preparing to submit a proposal to cancel the twinning between Izmir and Tel Aviv, the capital of the Israeli occupation state, and to declare all cities in the Gaza Strip as twinned cities. The head of the Justice and Development Party (the dominant party in Turkiye) in Izmir shared this during a press conference, stressing: “Izmir, like other cities in Turkiye, stands with the struggle of the Palestinian people.” “The twinning between Izmir and Tel Aviv must be reconsidered, and this mistake must be urgently ended.” The party leader added: “Izmir cannot and should not be a sister state or city […]