Basaarityranni Erdogan vaalii suhteita Hamasiin, solvaa Israelia- kulisseissa Turkin ja Israelin taloussuhteet jatkuvat tiiviinä

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Vaikka Turkin Erdogan on vaalinut suhteita Hamasiin ja solvannut Israelia, se on vain basaaripoliitikon julkisuuskuvaa sisäpolitiikan tarpeisiin. Erdoganin islamistienn puolue pyrkii maaliskuun viimeisen päivän paikalalisvaaleissa saamaan sekulaarin opposition Tasavaltalaisen kansanpuolueen johtamat Ankaran ja Istanbulin itselleen.

Kulissien takana Turkin poliittiset ja taloudelliset suhteet säilyvät ennalllaan. Hamasin 7. lokakuuta terroristi-iskua Israeliin ja Gazan sodan alkua seuraavana kuukautena Turkin vienti Israellin kasvoi.
Näin kertoo Utahin yliopiston valtio-opin professori M. Hakan Yavud, joka on kirjoittanut 2021 julkaistun kirjan “Erdogan: The Making of an Autocrat”.

“We know from the past, Erdogan always calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ and a ‘genocidal state,’ yet business goes on with the state of Israel,” M. Hakan Yavuz, a professor of political science at the University of Utah and the author of 2021’s “Erdogan: The Making of an Autocrat,” told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Weeks after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack launched the war, killing some 1,200 and taking 250 hostages, Erdogan called Hamas a “liberation group.” Turkey has hosted senior Hamas figures before and after the attack, including leader Ismail Haniyeh, who Erdogan’s chief security adviser said “might have been” in Turkey on Oct. 7. During his speech earlier this month in Istanbul, Erdogan also said Netanyahu and his government “are writing their names next to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, like today’s Nazis.”

But last month, Turkey’s exports to Israel increased more than 20% to $422 million, surpassing the pre-Oct. 7 figure of $408.3 million, according to local reports. Israel ranked 13th on Turkey’s export list in 2023.

According to Yavuz, Erdogan is ramping up his pro-Hamas rhetoric ahead of Turkey’s local elections on March 31. Erdogan’s Islamic conservative Justice and Development Party is attempting to win back offices in Istanbul and Ankara, where the secular opposition Republican People’s Party took control in 2019, penetrating the president’s near-total grip on power.”