Turkey intends to open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the world to recognise it as the capital of Palestine.
Erdoğan said in a speech to members of his AKP party in the southern province of Karaman that Turkey's consulate general in Jerusalem was already represented by an ambassador.
"God willing, the day is close when officially, with God's permission, we will open our embassy there," he said.
Foreign embassies in Israel, including Turkey's, are located in Tel Aviv.
