<p class="title">President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it was "out of the question" for Turkey to support the US economic plan for Palestinians, in comments published on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The White House plan revealed last week calls for $50 billion in investment over 10 years in the Palestinian territories and their Arab neighbours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It is out of the question for us to approach this issue positively," Erdogan told journalists aboard his plane returning from the G-20 summit in Japan, according to pro-government daily Yeni Safak.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Listing a slew of projects to develop roads, border crossings, power generation and tourism, the US framework sets an optimistic goal of creating one million Palestinian jobs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">US President Donald Trump's administration has however hinted that its political plan -- due later in the year -- will not mention a Palestinian state, abandoning long-standing US policy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Palestinian Authority and its rival Hamas have both denounced the economic initiative, saying it amounts to a bid by the unabashedly pro-Israel Trump to buy off their demands for an independent state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Erdogan is a vocal advocate of the Palestinian cause, and strongly opposed the US decision to move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem last year.</p>
<p class="title">President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it was "out of the question" for Turkey to support the US economic plan for Palestinians, in comments published on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The White House plan revealed last week calls for $50 billion in investment over 10 years in the Palestinian territories and their Arab neighbours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It is out of the question for us to approach this issue positively," Erdogan told journalists aboard his plane returning from the G-20 summit in Japan, according to pro-government daily Yeni Safak.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Listing a slew of projects to develop roads, border crossings, power generation and tourism, the US framework sets an optimistic goal of creating one million Palestinian jobs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">US President Donald Trump's administration has however hinted that its political plan -- due later in the year -- will not mention a Palestinian state, abandoning long-standing US policy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Palestinian Authority and its rival Hamas have both denounced the economic initiative, saying it amounts to a bid by the unabashedly pro-Israel Trump to buy off their demands for an independent state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Erdogan is a vocal advocate of the Palestinian cause, and strongly opposed the US decision to move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem last year.</p>