Turkey’s foreign minister met late Wednesday with the leader of the Hamas resistance movement in Syria to press for reconciliation between feuding Palestinian factions

Turkey's foreign minister met late Wednesday with the leader of the Hamas resistance movement in Syria to press for reconciliation between feuding Palestinian factions, Anatolia news agency reported.
  
Ahmet Davutoglu said he held talks with Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal at the Turkish embassy in Damascus following a telephone call with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas last week. Abbas is leader of the rival Fatah faction.
  
"It is positive that both sides want that national reconciliation is secured as soon as possible," Davutoglu said in the Syrian capital, according to Anatolia. Abbas and Meshaal differ in their priorities on how the rift between Fatah and Hamas should be healed, he said, but stressed that, "we have the impression that a common ground could be found."
  
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict "is at the core of the wave of change in the Middle East and many other problems," Davutoglu said. "A possible crisis in Palestine... would cause greater instability in the region," he said. "Israel's recent operations on the Gaza Strip have posed a great risk."
  
Officials from Fatah and Hamas held talks in late March in a bid to restart reconciliation talks.