Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Photo: tccb.gov.tr )
Turkey also tried to take part in the 4-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. While the US president emphasized the role of both themselves and Qatar and Egypt in exchanging prisoners in the hands of Hamas with prisoners in Israeli prisons in a three-to-one ratio, Hamas stated that the head of state of Turkey has an important role in the release of Thai prisoners. In this context, Turkey got 2 points. Because the government of Qatar is defended by 1 military division sent by former Minister of National Defense, Hulusi Akar, and because the emir owes his power largely to Mr. Erdoğan, Qatar is like the 82nd province of Turkey.
Turkey's advice on mediation in the Hamas-Israeli war is of a salutary nature for Doha. There is no surprise for the official Jerusalem that the head of state Erdoğan considers Hamas not a "terrorist organization" but a "political organization". As the political Islamic government of Turkey strengthens its position within the framework of democracy, it also tries to develop the arms industry, which is what worries Israel the most.
If it is necessary to give an example, every step taken by Turkey in the field of high technologies, from the photos taken and sent by the satellites, which were sent into space in April, to unmanned aerial vehicles and electric cars, makes Tel Aviv sleepless, so to speak. Furthermore, it would be against the nature of the process for Israel not to worry about even the slightest success of Hamas, which has strong moral ties to Turkey's current ruling party as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. That's why Mr. Erdoğan hits Israel as soon as he gets the chance, either inside or outside, and uses merciless rhetoric as much as he can.
This situation shows that, compared to previous years, Turkey's political Islam has gained significant acceptance in the region and even in the world. For example, in the summer of 2006, when Israel razed Lebanon to the ground, there was no one to comfort Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, who came to Ankara out of breath, and now, Turkey is not only announcing that Hamas is not a "terrorist organization" but a "political organization" from the mouth of its head of state but also labeling Israel as a "terrorist". Although Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, who was newly elected Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, invited the media army to the Islamic Research Center in Istanbul at that time, he squirreled out of the event. Undoubtedly, among the factors that strengthen Ankara's hand today, the regional conjuncture also has a role, the Russian-Ukrainian war is at the top of it.
We wrote earlier that the US dispatch of three aircraft carriers to the Eastern Mediterranean in the days following the Hamas attack is partly for Gaza and largely for plans within the framework of the Russia-Ukraine war. Compared to the Russia-Ukraine war, the Hamas-Israel war is a minor issue for Washington, and it can bring the parties to the table whenever it wants. That is why Mr. Erdoğan's harsh words about Israel are met with low-dose reactions from the US and the EU.
According to the claims of some American and English media, the issue of increasing the export of military-industrial goods from Turkey to Russia will be discussed during the visit of Brian Nelson, head of the US Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, to Turkey in the coming days. We have written several times before. One of the main goals of the USA, which sent 3 nuclear warships to the eastern Mediterranean Sea against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian war, is the exercise on the eve of the decisive stage of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
The head of state Erdoğan's harsh rhetoric against Israel enriches his baggage not only in Turkey but everywhere where political Islam exists, from Indonesia to Malaysia, from Africa to the EU. From this point of view, no one can deny that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has become the leader of the world political Islamic movement. No, this is not an anti-imperialist political Islam but attempts to force the possibilities within the system as much as possible, and Mr. Erdoğan succeeds in this. Here, the most important factors that strengthen the hand of Mr. Erdoğan as the leader of political Islam are the secular system of Turkey categorically and the disintegration and weakness of the opposition in the country conjecturally.
This weakness is the biggest threat to Turkish democracy.
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