Overview

• President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Egyptian organizers he would not participate if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended.
• His aircraft overflew the runway and circled over the Red Sea before landing, and Ankara said it had no information on the cause.
• Following Erdoğan’s warning, Netanyahu was dropped from the summit program, according to reports relayed by Anadolu.
• An Israeli adviser initially said Netanyahu would take part, then the prime minister’s office cited the approaching Simchat Torah holiday for his absence.
• Diplomatic sources portrayed the sequence as reinforcing Turkey’s refusal to share a platform with Israel’s leadership on Gaza.