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Written by Damir Nazarov
In connection with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, in early August, Turkey joined the judicial process initiated by South Africa against the Zionists. The UN confirmed Ankara’s move. The Cold War between Turkey and the Zionists is gaining momentum, but can such a conflict go beyond diplomacy?
At the end of July, speaking to AK Parti members in Rize’s hometown, Erdogan pointed out that “If (we) become stronger, Israel will not be able to do what it is doing now in Palestine. Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we can do the same with them.” The Zionists responded by recalling the fate of the infamous dictator Saddam Hussein. Experts seriously wondered why the Zionists reacted so nervously to the words of the Turkish president?
Observers found Turkey’s contradictory position in the economic direction. It was in this area that Erdogan and his party were reproached for not fulfilling their promises. We are talking about trade with the Zionists, when the head of Turkey called for an end to such trade, but not everyone responded to such a call. The Turkish energy company is still promoting Zionist terrorism, and other exporters have come up with ways to bypass direct trade altogether. And journalist Bekir Shirin noted the sale of weapons to the Zionists. So far, no one has been arrested or even fired or stripped of their license for trading with Zionists. Thus, Turkey continues to trade with the occupiers of the sacred land.
Another fact of Turkey’s indirect involvement in Zionist crimes was noticed by vigilant journalists from the daily newspaper Turkiye Gazetesi when they pointed out that “4,000 Turkish Israelis went to fight in Gaza, 400 of them came directly from Turkey, and the rest through a third country. Of these 4,000 people, 65 were killed and another 110 injured. It goes on to say that a total of “250,000 Jews in Israel have Turkish citizenship,” while “20,000 Turkish Jews with Israeli citizenship live in Turkey.” The article also mentions that “the participation of Turkish Jews in the crime of genocide is organized through licensed associations in Turkey and Israel,” and provides an interesting fact that “the general who runs the Iron Dome system has Turkish citizenship.”
Now if you look at the situation from the other side. The other day, the Zionist press claimed that after the deaths of Ismail Haniyeh and Saleh al-Aruri, Zaher Jabarin became a ”rising star” of Hamas. Zionist terrorists claim that Zaher Jabarin is responsible for the huge financial network he built with the help of the Turks. I would like to mention that in November 2023, two Turkish volunteers in the al-Qassam brigade, the Lebanese wing, became martyrs during a clash with the occupiers. Further, in April 2024, Turkish citizen Hassan Saklanan was killed by Zionists after he stabbed an occupier in the occupied holy al-Quds. Was Turkish intelligence aware of the readiness of the mentioned fighters for Palestine to embark on the path of martyrdom? One hundred percent, yes. Did MIT assist Hamas in its activities in Turkey? One hundred percent, yes. The conclusion is that there is a struggle inside Turkey between the pro–Palestinian and pro-Zionist directions. Such a hidden war affects not only the bureaucratic corridors of power, but also the sphere of economics and ideology.
Such a split is particularly evident in the ruling AK Parti, which includes people such as Ibrahim Kalin, who in his youth, as an activist of the local Islamic movement, translated the works of Imam Khomeini into Turkish and such pro-Zionist figures as this “adviser” Erdogan. A similar situation is observed in the ranks of the main opposition, the CHP.
To summarize. Despite Erdogan’s traditional populism on the Palestinian theme, his words about the readiness to send troops to occupied Palestine are similar to the truth. Firstly, compared to 2014, times have changed, the region has not been the same for a long time. Today there has been a strong shift towards the influence of the Axis of Resistance. Secondly, we are witnessing the rise of the Chinese role* in the region, and here it is worth recalling that Turkey is the most important strategic partner of the Republic of China. Now let’s imagine a certain equation, China – the Silk Road, + Turkey, + long-standing ties of certain Islamic-oriented figures of the Turkish establishment to Iran and + ties with Hamas, the output is = a large probability of Turkish troops entering to help the Palestinians.
*- China has been a long-time ally of the Palestinians since the Cold War.
