Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to address the Turkish parliament in the capital Ankara on Thursday.
Abbas arrived in Turkey on Wednesday, a day after he met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Abbas held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday in Ankara to discuss the ongoing Gaza war, Erdoğan`s communications office announced on the social media platform X.
The two discussed “the steps that need to be taken for a permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, among other things, the office said.
The statement also accused Israel of committing a “massacre” in Gaza.
Abbas called for an immediate ceasefire and Israel’s complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Abbas, 88, is president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and chairman of Fatah. He has little support within the Palestinian population.
Meanwhile, a decisive round of negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza is expected to start in Qatar on Thursday.
The Islamist Palestinian group Hamas said it will not attend the talks but is willing to be briefed afterward on the discussed points. Hamas is responsible for the massacre on October 7 in Israel, which started the current war.
Fatah and Hamas are the two largest Palestinian organizations and bitter rivals.
In 2006, Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary election. The following year, it seized control of the Gaza Strip by force and drove Fatah out of the area. Since then, Abbas has de facto only ruled in the West Bank.
