Turkey's foreign minister on Friday offered his "condolences" to Hamas officials at a meeting in Istanbul following the death of the Palestinian militant group's leader Yahya Sinwar.
Hakan Fidan "received the president of the Hamas Shura Council Mohammed Ismail Darwish and members of the political bureau" to whom "he presented his condolences for the martyr Yahya Sinwar," the ministry said in a statement.
At the meeting they also discussed "the state of recent negotiations for a ceasefire deal allowing the exchange of hostages and prisoners", Fidan's ministry said.
"Fidan reiterated that Turkey would use all diplomatic means to mobilise the international community against the humanitarian catastrophe underway in Gaza," it added.