a day agoTurkey's double face facing Israel
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(2 years ago)If the Turkish president takes up the Palestinian cause, thus strengthening a majority of his public opinion, the compiled data shows that the country has not interrupted exchanges with the Jewish state from the paper “Le Monde” Since the start of Israeli military intervention at the Gaza Strip, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has worn the uniform [...]
If the Turkish president takes over the Palestinian cause, thus strengthening a majority of his public opinion, compiled data shows that the country has not interrupted exchanges with the Jewish state
From the newspaper “Le Monde”
Since the start of Israeli military intervention in the Gaza Strip, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has worn his favorite uniform, the champion of the Palestinian and Arabic cause. After holding his first-day blow after the attack carried by Hamas on October 7th, calling for an end to <x0) aggressive action “, he continued to condemn, in the following weeks, the barbarous “attacks by the Jewish state, calling Benjamin Netanyah a “ap of Gaza” or even <6>genocide”. Hamas' historical support, with which he is near and which considers a <x8-organization organisation”, Ankara's strong man has fully chosen his side, galvanising his Islamist-nationalist base while trying to consolidate a majority of public opinion very sensitive to the Palestinian issue.
However, a small voice came to contradict this official speech. For nearly two months, Metin Cihan, 44, an independent and exiled journalist since 2020 in Berlin, has been ranked day after day in his X account, ships passing transit from Turkish ports to Israel. A challenging task consisting of collecting data for maritime activities, freely accessable to marine countries and free trade, but which today sheds heavy light on the close trade ties the two countries continue to maintain, sometimes even to the top of the state. Turkish “Authorities can publicly describe Israel as a terrorist “8x2> and accuse the West of “double standards”, but they haven't absolutely changed anything in their affairs”, says the journalist.
FACT E T It's a real deal.
Taking advantage of the data, Metin Cihan stands out a ship carrying frequent shipments to Israel and belonging to a certain Ibrahim Güler, a former president of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Hatay province. He also found that the company Pamukkale Kablo, owned by Mustafa Semerci, the founding leader of the Greater Union Party (BBP), an ultranationalist rightist group, a member of the government coalition, continued, after 7 October, to supply cables to the Jewish state. However, the BBP was prominent in recent weeks for its calls for a boycott of Israel as a whole and its heavy raids against the Starbucks cafes, aimed at their alleged support for Tel Aviv.
And then, journalism identifies that even the transportation company Manta Shipping is continuing with Israel. The company belongs to Mert Cetinkaya, “an associate of Burak Erdogan, son of President”, says Metin Cihan.
I have divided all my sources and methods of investigation. It's irrefutable and it hasn't been denied. The company said trade with Israel continued and could do nothing about it because a contract was made before the war”. A few days later, he found that Erka Yildirim, son of former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim (AKP), is an associate of the Shipping Ora, a shipping company that trades with Israel. In Ankara, Metin Cihani's tweet posts ended up causing fuss in political ranks. Former AKP Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sharply criticised the government and businessmen who continue their activities with Israel. In the opposition nation, it called for an account from the government. And some daily newspapers have taken into detail lists of exported or redirected goods this way every month.
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MPs, Hakan Fidan, minister of foreign affairs, responded that “relations between Turkey and Israel, which have lasted more than seventy-four years, have never been at the expense of the Palestinian case”. A “response in the form of a confession, but rather sincere on its part”, knows Mattin Cihan. According to the pro-government daily huh Sabah, President Erdogan and his family aim to make a criminal complaint against the journalist. He says he has not yet received anything from the authorities.
On the Israeli side, he notes, authorities have decided since December 14th and, for an indefinite reason, to stop accessing specific information about their portual activities. “instead of six or seven boats that we could easily identify every day, we now see only two on the Israeli side, but do not despair of finding real data, they will come out one way or another. Another”. In 2020, in the midst of renewed economic activity, Israeli Prime Minister Jerusalem Post reported: “The Turkish president's positions towards me in public are different in terms of trade relations between our two countries. And Benjamin Netanyah added: “He calls me Hitler every three hours... Now he does it every six hours, but thanks to God, trade between Turkey and Israel is prospering.
