Turkish president, Lebanese premier hold talks in New York

WASHINGTON

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Wednesday held closed-door talks in the US.

The meeting at the Turkish House, Türkiye’s dedicated diplomatic headquarters in New York, came on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.

No further information was released about the meeting, which took place after days of Israeli wireless device attacks and bombardments of Lebanon, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands.

Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been engaged in cross-border clashes since the start of the Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 41,500 people, most of them women and children, following a cross-border attack by Palestinian group Hamas last Oct. 7.

The international community has warned against the strikes on Lebanon, as they raise the specter of spreading the Gaza conflict regionally, a possibility Erdogan has also repeatedly raised the alarm over.