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Former Jerusalem Mayor Targeted by Hamas' Istanbul Cell Calls for Sanctions on Turkey
(Telegraph-UK) Raf Sanchez - Nir Barkat, the former mayor of Jerusalem, was in the sights of an Istanbul-based Hamas cell, an investigation by the Daily Telegraph revealed. In response, Barkat called David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, and urged the U.S. to begin imposing sanctions on Turkey. "We must never allow any country to get away with providing infrastructure for terror organizations," Barkat said in an interview. Israel Foreign Ministry director general Yuval Rotem said, "Israel calls on Turkey to immediately cut its support for Hamas operations out of its territory and to close Hamas' headquarters in Istanbul."