Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists on social media circulated videos and photos of the motorcade of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who arrived in the Turkish capital, Ankara, and the way Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received him in an official ceremony at the Presidential Complex, Wednesday.
Part of the solemn reception organized by Turkish President Erdogan for his brother, the President of Israel, and the Israeli national anthem was played. ????????❤️???????? And the Brotherhood’s hanger will be: an attempt to support the people of Palestine, end the occupation and their suffering and restore their national rights ???????? #Khafji @EdyCohen https://t.co/H7KMy5kQHV
Herzog’s visit is the first by an Israeli president to Turkey since former President Shimon Peres traveled to Ankara in 2007.
Al-Akhonji’s mouthpiece: This is not the convoy of the Israeli president in Ankara, but the knights of the liberation of Jerusalem.. https://t.co/CSde6AoOsE
After arriving in Ankara, the Israeli president went to the mausoleum of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and then to the presidential complex to meet Erdogan, according to video footage published by the Anatolia News Agency.
Hamas publishes a “soft” statement about the Israeli president’s visit to Turkey. It was not even able to mention the name of “Turkey”, which received him so warmly, while in its previous statements against the UAE and Bahrain, it described it in the strongest terms: 1- A stab in the back. 2- A political setback. 3- A big fall. The selectivity of traffickers in the Palestinian cause https://t.co/96IFvKYCwb
Relations between the two countries have been tense over the past decade, after they suffered a major blow in 2010 when Israeli soldiers stormed the Marmara ship, a Turkish aid convoy bound for the Gaza Strip. At that time, Turkey suspended diplomatic relations with Israel.