Erdogan slams U.S. decision to revoke Palestinian visas ahead of UN meet

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the United States should immediately revise its decision to revoke the visas of Palestinian officials and bar them from attending the United Nations meeting in New York this month.

Washington said last week it would not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to travel to New York, where several U.S. allies are set to recognise Palestine as a state.

The move “does not fit the United Nations’ raison d’etre,” Erdogan told…