Biden Admin Silent on Turkey’s Sponsorship of Hamas in Counterterrorism Talks

Counterterrorism coordinator leaves out Hamas when discussing how to defeat terrorism in Turkey

By Adam Kredo

The State Department’s top counterterrorism official was in Turkey this week for meetings, but missing from her schedule were discussions about Hamas—an omission that isn’t going unnoticed on Capitol Hill.

Ambassador Elizabeth Richard, the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator, landed in Ankara on Monday to discuss regional operations with Turkish leadership. Richard was in the country to shore up support for the “defeat of terrorist organizations such as PKK, DHKP-C, and ISIS in Syria and Iraq,” according to a notification issued by the State Department.

Hamas—the region’s central Iran-backed terrorist group, which receives financial and logistical support from Turkey—does not appear to be one of the agenda items, indicating that the Biden administration is hesitant to raise the issue even at a time when the terror group is waging war on Israel and sowing discord throughout the Middle East.

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