2025-10-11 18:02
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2025-10-11 18:02
Shop owners in several shopping malls in Istanbul will donate next Sunday's earnings to the Gaza Strip, Daily Sabah reported. The aim of the campaign is to draw attention to the humanitarian catastrophe there.
Several Turkish aid foundations also got involved in the “Be Hope for Gaza” campaign. As part of the project, the centers that will participate in it next Sunday will be decorated with Palestinian flags, and exhibitions devoted to the Gaza Strip will be organized inside. The initiators plan to expand the campaign to the entire country.
As part of the campaign, it will also be possible to make donations to the “Charity Bazaar”, which will be opened in shopping centers on Saturday. One of the organizers emphasized in an interview with a Turkish daily that the buildings will also host workshops and art classes for children. “We believe that society will provide strong support for this project,” he added.
Since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip in October 2023, Turkey has organized dozens of mass demonstrations in support of the Palestinians and boycotts of Israeli companies and products. The country's authorities strongly condemned Israel's actions, repeatedly calling them genocide.
Ankara has been calling for years for the creation of an independent Palestine within the 1967 borders, with its capital in East Jerusalem. Israel as a result of the so-called During the Six-Day War in 1967, it occupied the Golan Heights, the Jordanian West Bank, part of Jerusalem, the Gaza District and the Sinai Peninsula, which then belonged to Syria, which was returned to Egypt in 1979 under the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement. An independent Palestine would include the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
In recent weeks, Türkiye has also called, among others, to suspend Israel from the rights of a member of international organizations, including the UN General Assembly.
Jakub Bawołek (PAP)
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