Turkey urged the Palestinian factions to reconcile after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks Sunday with Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas group in Gaza. The call for Hamas to close ranks with Fatah party came just before the Palestinians were due to hold their first direct meeting with Israeli representatives in 15 months. Palestinian and Israeli representatives have agreed to attend talks in Jordan on Tuesday on how to break the deadlock in the peace process. The meeting will be hosted by King Abdullah II and attended by envoys from the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia. During a two-hour, 30-minute-meeting with Haniyeh at the Turkish leader's residence in Istanbul, Erdogan said Hamas and Fatah needed to "urgently agree on the issues," the NTV television channel reported.