US envoy says Turkiye should join Gaza stabilization force

US Ambassador to Turkiye and Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said Turkiye should be included in an international stabilization force for Gaza, citing Ankara’s military capacity and its channels of dialogue with the Palestinian group Hamas, according to comments he made at the Jerusalem Post’s Washington Conference, Anadolu reports. In remarks posted Thursday by Israeli journalist Amichai Stein through US social media company X, Barrack said Turkiye’s participation would strengthen the proposed International Stabilization Force (ISF), which is part of the post-war mechanism laid out under the ceasefire plan. “Our suggestion was that since the Turks have the largest and most effective ground troop operation in the region, and since they have a dialogue with Hamas, perhaps that would be beneficial […]