Turkey says in talks with Israel, Egypt for Gaza aid

Turkey is in talks with Israel and Egypt about establishing an air corridor to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza and evacuate potentially thousands of injured Palestinians for treatment in Turkey, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Aug. 6.

"Yesterday I spoke with (Palestinian) President Abbas and we want to get the injured people, thousands of them. They need urgent medical therapy, and we have already allocated places in our hospitals for them," Davutoğlu told Reuters in an interview.

"We are talking with both Egypt and Israel to have an air bridge to send humanitarian assistance ... If permission is given, our air ambulances will be carrying these passengers," he said.
 
Davutoğlu also said Turkey has stepped up humanitarian assistance to an estimated 1.5 million people internally displaced by violence in northern Iraq's Kurdish region. "We have sent thousands of tents as well as more than 200 trucks ... and there will be additional humanitarian assistance because in the Kurdish region, (Iraqi Kurdistan President Masoud) Barzani told me they now have 1.5 million IDPs," he said.

"So this turmoil is really a threat to regional stability, not only to Turkey, to everybody," he said, adding Turkey would take all necessary measures to keep stability around its borders."