Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Varsen Aghabekian Shahin on the sidelines of the 9th Istanbul Mediation Conference, held in Istanbul. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the meeting.

In his opening speech at the conference, Fidan said the occupation in Gaza and the West Bank was going unpunished, adding that Israel's daily violations of the ceasefire were eroding confidence in the international system. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also stressed in a video message sent to the conference that millions of people in Palestine, Lebanon and Sudan who had placed their hopes in the United Nations were experiencing deep disappointment.