ANKARA - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas warned here Monday against a “social and economic catastrophe” in the Palestinian territories if economic assistance does not resume soon. “The loss of financial aid is the main problem, because it threatens to provoke a social end economic crisis in our country,” he told reporters before meeting National Assembly speaker Bulent Arinc.Abbas told CNN-Turk television earlier that there is “a threat of possible famine” in the territories. Abbas hopes to convince Ankara to use its good relations with Israel, the United States and the European Union to find a compromise that will allow the resumption of financial aid to the Palestinian Authority.
| 'cause the Turks have such influence over us right now. |