Turkiye rejects ‘disinformation’ by Israel FM on Ismail Haniyeh inheritance dispute

Turkiye has denied claims by Israel’s foreign minister of a dispute between the Turkish government and late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s sons over withheld inheritance, insisting that the Israeli minister is purposefully spreading “disinformation”. In a post on the social media platform X yesterday, Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz claimed that “a conflict erupted between [Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan] and the sons of Ismail Haniyeh, who demanded the $3 billion held in Turkish bank accounts under their father’s name. Erdoğan refused to release the funds.” Posing the question of how the late Hamas leader managed to “amass such a fortune” and what Erdogan’s “connection to the money” is, Katz insinuated that Turkiye and its government have been responsible for […]