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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:34PM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc"><em>Turkey&#8217;s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) and the Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas attend a news briefing after their meeting in Ankara June 24, 2011.</em></div>
<div id="divLead"><strong>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the only solution for lasting peace in the Middle East is the establishment of a Palestinian state. </strong></div>
<p>Erdogan made the remarks after meeting with acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, AFP reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;The founding of an independent and viable Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital is the basic condition for the solution to the (Israeli-Palestinian) issue,&#8221; Erdogan said.</p>
<p>Abbas travelled to Turkey on Tuesday, on a four-day visit, in a bid to rally support for a possible yes-vote at the United Nations.</p>
<p>Hamas and Fatah have agreed, after signing a unity deal in May, to seek UN recognition as an independent state in the next General Assembly meeting in September.</p>
<p>More than 100 countries have so far officially recognized Palestine as a state based on the 1967 borders, the boundaries that existed before Israel captured and annexed East al-Quds (Jerusalem), the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, leaked cables revealed that Israel&#8217;s Foreign Ministry had launched a global campaign to thwart the Palestinian move to seek statehood recognition.</p>
<p>Israeli diplomats have been instructed to lobby the highest possible officials in their respective countries and muster their support to vote against the recognition of a Palestinian state.</p>
<p>Moreover, Israel&#8217;s closest ally, the United States, has promised to veto any vote for the recognition of the Palestinian statehood.</p>
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