"FM Gul re the Hamas visit to Ankara: We told the US and Israel
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has revealed that the AKP administration had briefed both the US and Israel prior to the Ankara visit by the Hamas delegation last week. Gul also noted that he had received positive impressions from both countries following these briefings. Gul declined, however, to give an answer to the question of exactly who it was who had issued an invitation to to Hamas; instead, he said yesterday, 'I cannot say anything as to who it was that invited them.'"
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