Consistency in 🇹🇷FP? Only in its support for #Hamas . FM Fidan-the guy who established Hamas in Turkey- meets Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar earlier today. Just our NATO ally, keepin’ its usual classy company!

Where are all the dudes with Kemal Ataturk bumper stickers, tattoos, bellowing 'we are soldiers of Mustafa Kemal'?

Are you not remotely disturbed this thug compared 🇹🇷 signature national resistance movement to that of rapists, murderers and terrorists?

Where is your outrage?

Erdogan outdid himself today. Addressing his parliamentary group, he compared #Hamas as being the mirror equivalent of Ataturk’s National Resistance Movement of the 1920s

A disgraceful excuse for a human being

Behold, the adoration of a tyrant. Only a person this insecure, requires such manufactured praise

Take a close look at🇹🇷ruling vanguard. There is not one single well-intentioned person-only a craven, greedy and corrupt herd

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Why will Erdogan meet Ismail Haniyeh this weekend? 👇

Snr Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh will meet with 🇹🇷 Tayyip Erdogan this weekend. The big question is: why? I joined i24NEWS English to explain👇

Gosh, I wonder what they will have to talk about?? timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

Today 🇹🇷 is sending a ship full of aid to Gaza, that will be delivered via the Rafah border w/Egypt.

If the aim is to deliver aid to Palestinians, then this seems the sensible option. Why the flotilla then, that intends to breach the naval blockade? aa.com.tr/en/middle-east…

Reminder that last September Israel intercepted a shipment from Turkey to Gaza that included 16 tonnes of ammonium chloride, which can be used to make rocket fuel. If Israel were to see this flotilla as a provocation, it would be for good reason.

Of course the other big question: what would be 🇹🇷 position if Israel were to strike back at Iran? In the event that 🇺🇸 assisted 🇮🇱 , how would Ankara respond?

Check out more on the flotilla in my last piece with Sinan Ciddi

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Every-single-word💯

Of course Iran “informed” Turkey ahead of time.

The 🇺🇸 has let 🇹🇷 get away with playing both sides of Ukraine/NATO vs Russia. Hopefully President Biden/Secretary Antony Blinken are not going to use the same playbook as Erdogan cynically lines up with new Axis of Evil (Iran-Hamas-Hezbollah-Houthis)…

🇹🇷 only motive here is to escalate. Reminiscent of other Erdogan jingoistic FP initiatives, this one is actually dangerous, foolhardy & dumb

At the very least, an attempt to breach the naval blockade of Gaza will disrupt existing aid deliveries #FAFO m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-w…

Reminder for the media: 

Israel killed Mohammed Reza Zahedi, and 5 IRGC commanders in a building used by Quds Force terrorists near Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1. It was not in Syria’s “embassy” as some erroneously have reported. Who was he? 

> Zahedi helped plan and…

Erdogan isn't Hamas' only backer

My latest National Interest w/colleague Melissa Sacks ID's 🇹🇷 gov officials w/ties to terrorist orgs sanctioned by 🇺🇸&🇮🇱

🎆Dr.Nureddin NEBATİ🇹🇷 Fmr Fin Min
🎆Hasan Turan 🇹🇷🇵🇸 Mem of Parliament
🎆Numan Kurtulmuş Pres 🇹🇷 Parliament nationalinterest.org/feature/hamas%…

'Opposition parties and journalists were effective in calling out Erdogan’s hypocrisy, which feigned sympathy for Palestinians and Hamas, while at the same time, AKP elites close to Erdogan continued to profit from trading with Israel.' – Sinan Ciddi
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Erdogan isn't Hamas' only backer.

FDD exposes snr 🇹🇷 gov officials, inc elected members of 🇹🇷 Parliament, who have deep ties to terrorist orgs, sanctioned by the 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 👇

🎆Dr.Nureddin NEBATİ🇹🇷 (Fmr Fin min)
🎆Hasan Turan 🇹🇷🇵🇸 (AKP)
🎆Numan Kurtulmuş (AKP) nationalinterest.org/feature/hamas%…

Hamas’ Enablers in the Turkish Government

Links to the terrorist group rise to the top of the ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Sinan Ciddi and Melissa Sacks in National Interest: fdd.org/analysis/op_ed…