How does Erdogan view the Palestinian issue?
With the effectiveness of the “Biden-Harris” government in the White House, the increase in Turkey’s economic problems and the change in the strategy of the Turkish authorities in the West Asia region, the country’s foreign policy moved towards “freezing tensions” and improving relations with its rivals and “enemies of yesterday” . One of the examples of this change of strategy in Ankara was the improvement of relations between this country and the Zionist regime. Since the establishment of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has shown himself to be an anti-Zionist politician and a supporter of the people of Palestine.
Perhaps one of the lasting images in the condemnation of the Zionist regime was Erdogan’s verbal attack on the then president of Israel at the Davos summit. Now, Turkey’s geopolitical and economic needs to Tel Aviv, especially in the issue of gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, have caused the adjustment of Ankara’s policies and the resumption of relations between the two countries. In the continuation of this note, we will try to investigate the type of Turkish politics regarding the Palestinian issue and the ups and downs of this country’s relations with the Zionist regime.
Normalization of relations with the Zionist regime
On Wednesday, August 17, 2022, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced the complete normalization of relations with Turkey and the upgrading of diplomatic relations to the ambassadorial level. A high-ranking Zionist official said in an interview with Yediot Aharonot newspaper on Tuesday that Tel Aviv and Turkey are nearing an agreement that will allow Israeli planes to return to Turkish airports after years of ban. In the continuation of this conversation, he predicted that the commercial airlines of the Zionist regime will be allowed to land at Turkish airports within the next few weeks. The publication of this news after the meeting of the president of the Zionist regime with Erdoğan in Turkey does not seem like a strange and unpredictable development.
