Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today welcomed the leader of the terrorist organization Hamas to Istanbul. There was a lot of criticism about this. But behind the meeting probably lies a new ceasefire initiative from the ‘peace sultan’.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is once again trying to be the ‘Sultan of Peace’. He hosted the only serious, if ultimately failed, peace talks between Ukraine and Russia to date, just a few days after the massacre by the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas. , with 1,200 murdered Israelis and more than 200 kidnapped hostages, acts as an intermediary between Israel and Hamas. Now he is starting a new attempt.
On Saturday, Erdogan received Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who lives in Qatar, in Istanbul. Ankara does not consider Hamas a terrorist group and the militant group’s political leaders can travel freely to Turkey.
It is believed that Erdogan wants to push for the release of 130 Israeli hostages from Hamas and then a ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist organization, as former mediator Qatar says he sees the negotiations as reaching a low point. For this purpose, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan traveled to Qatar last week to talk to Hamas representatives about the issue.
Turkey has so far stood steadfastly behind Hamas. While at the beginning of the war he still found words of understanding for the Israeli military actions, a few days ago he compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.
Erdogan announced earlier this week that his country would step up its diplomatic efforts to prevent the war in Gaza from being overshadowed by Israeli-Iranian tensions. The calculations of Turkish foreign policy lie behind this.
The ‘Arab Spring’ that started in Tunisia in 2011 was a historic turning point in the Muslim world and Erdogan saw it as an opportunity to ‘give his country more influence’, writes journalist and Turkey expert Cigdem Akyol in her book ‘Generation Erdogan ‘. . His central message came a little later, after his election victory in 2011, when he – then prime minister – greeted the Islamic world from the balcony of his official residence in Ankara to the cheering crowd: ‘I am the defender of the Muslims. around the world, those who are wronged are over.” From Baghdad to Tehran, from Sarajevo to the West Bank, Gaza and Quds (Jerusalem). And Erdogan still sees it that way today: as leader of the Islamic world.
But if Erdogan actually succeeds in freeing the hostages, the ‘peace sultan’ would also enjoy enormous prestige in Israel.
Source: Krone
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