The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye released a statement regarding the assassination of Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh, Paralel.Az reports.

"We condemn the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau, in a heinous attack in Tehran.

We express our condolences to the Palestinian people, hundreds of thousands of whom, like Haniyeh, have been martyred in order to live peacefully in their homeland under the roof of their own state.

The Netanyahu Government's lack of intention to achieve peace has been demonstrated once again.

This attack is also aimed at spreading the war in Gaza to a regional level. If the international community does not act to stop Israel, our region will face an even greater conflict.

Türkiye will continue to support the just cause of the Palestinian people." the statement reads.

Recall that the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran along with one of his bodyguards, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday.

Hamas announced that Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli raid on his residence in Tehran.

Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian's swear-in ceremony on Tuesday.