US President Donald Trump on Friday invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to join the Gaza “Board of Peace,” a body expected to oversee the administration and reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave under a US-backed ceasefire plan, the Turkish Presidency’s Directorate of Communications announced on Saturday.
Burhanettin Duran, head of the directorate, said on X that Trump sent Erdoğan a letter on Friday, inviting him to become a founding member of the board.
Birleşmiş Milletler Güvenlik Konseyi 2803 sayılı kararıyla, ABD Başkanı Donald Trump tarafından açıklanan Gazze İhtilafını Sona Erdirmek için Kapsamlı Planı (Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict) desteklemeyi kararlaştırmıştır.
Bu çerçevede, Gazze'de güvenliğin…
— Burhanettin Duran (@burhanduran) January 17, 2026
The White House on Friday laid out a new governance structure for Gaza that includes a Palestinian technocratic committee for day-to-day civil services and two US-led boards intended to steer reconstruction and longer-term planning.
The Board of Peace itself is expected to include heads of state from the countries that mediated the ceasefire plan, including Egypt, Turkey and Qatar, with Trump as chair.
The White House statement did not mention Erdoğan by name but listed a “founding Executive Board” that includes Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, former British prime minister Tony Blair, investor Marc Rowan, World Bank President Ajay Banga and deputy national security adviser Robert Gabriel Jr.
It also said Nickolay Mladenov, a former United Nations envoy, would serve as “High Representative for Gaza,” acting as a key intermediary with the Palestinian committee.
A separate “Gaza Executive Board” named by the White House includes Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan along with officials linked to Qatar, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, as well as UN Middle East envoy Sigrid Kaag.
Critics have questioned the credibility of a governance plan led by figures widely seen as strongly aligned with Israel, pointing to the inclusion of Kushner and Rubio in top roles and arguing that Palestinians are being denied real authority over their own territory.
Others have described the structure as resembling a colonial-style arrangement, with decision-making power concentrated in Washington under Trump rather than in a Palestinian-led political framework.