Turkish foreign minister to visit Israel for first time in 15 years
It is not just media campaigns carried out by stations and platforms affiliated with the authorities that mislead and distort the facts. Politicians are now practicing it openly but in different ways.
Turkey is considered the most contradictory and creative country in terms of political equivocation and lying to the people because, in conjunction with the visit of the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to Israel, the media supporting political Islam launched a campaign to justify the visit. Foremost among them is the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel, which repeated its usual narrative that normalizing Turkey with Israel is in the interest of Palestine.
But Turks may have felt that the media campaign is not enough today, and more action is needed to preserve the Brotherhood segment of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Therefore, during his visit to Israel, Çavuşoğlu went to Ramallah and met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Observers have described Çavuşoğlu’s visit to Ramallah as a blurry visit, and others have considered it an opportunity for the Palestinians to get to know the truth about the Turkish position and to know that previous statements criticizing Israel and lamenting the Al-Aqsa Mosque are nothing more than a play on their feelings and an attempt to attract sympathy.
During his visit to Ramallah, the Turkish Foreign Minister sought to convince the Palestinians that normalization of relations with Israel would not be at their expense, and that the two were completely separate.
The Turkish Minister eased his statements regarding the confrontations in Al-Aqsa; He said the clashes upset his country, adding: “It is important for all Muslims to protect the sanctity and status of Al-Aqsa”.
Observers believe that Erdogan is no longer in need of slogans to flirt with the Palestinians, nor is he in need of Hamas statements to praise his positions, as this has become a thing of the past and at a stage that achieved its goals by drawing the attention of the Israelis.
The Turkish president is now trying to appease Tel Aviv in order to normalize relations with it, as his recent speeches were devoid of the verbal attacks that he used so heavily.
Despite the Turkish Foreign Minister’s assertion that the normalization of relations between Turkey and Israel will have a positive impact in order to achieve a peaceful solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the statements were devoid of Palestine or its cause. The statements of both Çavuşoğlu and Yair Lapid were based on the historical and economic relations between their countries and how to improve them for the benefit of both countries only, without paying attention to Palestine and its cause.
Analysts say the rapprochement is a response to Erdogan’s desire to boost his country’s ailing economy and to construct a gas pipeline linking Turkey with Israel.
Erdogan recently said that he was open to mending strained relations between Turkey and Israel following a decline in U.S. support for a controversial Mediterranean gas pipeline.
Erdogan added that he was reviving talks with Israel on an old idea to bring Mediterranean gas to European customers via Turkey, claiming that as Turkey, we will do our utmost to cooperate on a profit-making basis for all, as politicians, we should not be here for conflicts but to live in peace.
Çavuşoğlu visited the Holocaust memorial on Wednesday before going to the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in a clear order of priority for Turkey.
