Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza, held talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan shortly after arriving in Turkey Sunday. The talks were due to focus on the power-sharing agreement between Hamas and Fatah party, whose leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is the internationally recognized head of the Palestinian Authority, Turkish media reported. Turkish media reported that Haniyeh will pay a call on Bulent Yildirim, the head of the Turkish Islamic charity, IHH, which sponsored a convoy of ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists and aid to Gaza in May 2010. Israeli commandos seized the convoy in an operation in which eight Turks and one Turkish-American died aboard the Mavi Marmara. Haniyeh is also expected to visit relatives of those killed in the attack.
