ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Israel's attacks on Iran right before a new round of nuclear talks with the United States aimed to sabotage the negotiations, and it showed Israel did not want to resolve issues through diplomacy.

As the war between Israel and Iran escalates, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he plans to strengthen the country’s deterrence capabilities so that no country would dare attack it. Erdogan announced plans this week to step up Turkey’s production of medium- and long-range missiles.

Ahram Online provides live coverage of the unfolding military confrontation between Israel and Iran as the two sides waged deadly strikes against one another for the ninth day in a row.

The United Nations' Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA will open an office in Ankara, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, urging Muslim countries to give the agency more support after Israel banned it.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was in Istanbul Friday for a rare visit to arch-foe Turkey, in what Yerevan has described as a "historic" step toward regional peace. Pashinyan's visit to Turkey is a step in that direction.

Israel last year banned UNRWA, saying it had employed members of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas who took part in the October 7 massacre.