Turkish police Sunday fired tear gas to disperse a pro-Palestinian rally staged outside a military base housing US forces just hours before the arrival in Ankara of Washington's top diplomat.
The protest outside the Incirlik Air Base in southeastern Turkey was organised by the IHH humanitarian relief fund, which in 2010 led a flotilla to Gaza that sparked Israeli raids in which 10 civilians died.
The IHH protest was timed to coincide with a visit to Ankara by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was to arrive late Sunday and meet Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday. Israel is trying to crush militants who staged the deadliest attack in the country's history on October 7, killing more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and taking 240 hostages, according to Israeli officials.
Erdogan has repeatedly lashed out at the United States for supporting the Israeli operation, which he has compared to"genocide". Israel and Turkey had been gradually mending their relations, which ruptured in the wake of the 2010 IHH attempt to break Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip.
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