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#Türkiye #Foreignpolicy explained in short: There is a proverb in Turkish, which is translated like this: "My daughter, I'm telling you, my daughter in law, you should understand.." Means like, what I am saying is actually meant for you, but I am doing it indirectly, so you understand the message..
Many foreign observers still read Turkey in their orientalist way and take words by its meaning, instead to understand the Turkish way of life, their indirect messages and signs and are too much serious in their observations when looking into our internal politics
Close observer's and those with realistic Turkey views, without woke romantics, actually have seen Turkey and President Erdoğan the last two years in most of his foreign policy very much pro-West with a few exceptions, pro-Nato, pro-EU, compromised in his policies regarding Greece, Eastern Mediterranean, reconciled with most of the Gulf countries, Egypt and also Israel. Despite of its former close but uneasy relation with Russia, provided Ukraine with important weapons and technology, acted as a "mediator".
So what happened now suddenly, that President Erdoğan came out with harsh statements about the Israel-Palestine issue, risking even a huge diplomatic rift with the West and Israel, which has already started? When almost all opposition parties made hard statements about Israel and even his coalition partner, he tried over a week to be on the silent side and his speeches were very careful and balanced. So why now?
The reason is, just like the proverb at the beginning, a message that doesn't go actually to Finland or Sweden for the NATO accession, or to Israel in its Gaza operation and has only partly to do with these countries, but actually the recipient is directly and only:
The United States of America.
Despite all the efforts mentioned before and the mostly conform policies over the last two years with the West, including not using the S-400s until now, has not brought a single cent of investment from the West. After two years, the F-16 orders are still standing in question for a 70 years NATO member, but at top of all, the number one enemy of Turkey and Turkish people, YPG, nowadays called SDF from the US in Northern Syria, a direct affiliate of the PKK, worldwide recognized Terror organisation, stands with our allies help in front of our door, trained, armed from tip to toe..
As this wasn't enough, the US has downed a Turkish drone just a few days ago, when Iranian rockets are flying without any hindrance to US bases and even declared Turkey as an aggressor for a few days ago when the Israeli-Palestine fight was ongoing, regarding Turkeys terror operations in Northern Syria.
Now, after one week of silence and balance, we have seen the US and almost all our other allies in the West, silencing any opposition in their country and abroad against Israel's so called fight against Terror and forgot all their wannabe "human rights" speeches and embargoes which they very often use against Turkey, sending weapons, aircraft carrier, moral visits one after another to Israel.
All of this did not go unnoticed for the Turkish foreign policy..
The one way street, which was built as a trap for Turkey from our own western allies, slowly became unbearable and combined with a large public dissatisfaction and pressure after seeing the horrible pictures out of Palestine, brought us again back to the Status Quo, or how they say "You have not left anything what we can lose anymore" situation..
In short, nobody in Ankara seriously care about Israel or Sweden as a counterpart in all of this mess and see them as equals. The message is going for very long to Washington, but it seems, that American diplomacy has lost its reality for long ago and don't understand how serious the Turks mean it. Water is boiling here and if the US doesn't get the message soon, we may see that two NATO partners collide, eventually even militarily and that's total collapse.
