Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the assassination of Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Anadolu Agency reports.

“I strongly condemn and curse the treacherous assassination carried out in Tehran against Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh,” Erdogan said on X.

It was “a despicable attempt to undermine the Palestinian Cause, the glorious resistance of Gaza, and the rightful struggle of our Palestinian brothers, aiming to demoralise, intimidate, and suppress them,” he added.

Erdogan emphasised that this assassination mirrors previous attacks on Palestinian figures like Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdul Aziz al-Rantisi, asserting that “Zionist barbarism will once again fail to achieve its goals.”