Relations between Türkiye and the Zionist regime over time

Mehr News Agency – International Group: The beginning of relations between Turkey and the Zionist regime dates back to the years after World War II. In fact, March 28, 1949 should be considered as the starting point of official relations between Turkey and Tel Aviv. On this date, the Turkish government under the leadership of President Ismet Inonu and Shamsuddin Gon =”text-a..”>Altai, the prime minister and also as the first government in the Islamic world, recognized the existence of the Zionist regime. While earlier and before the official recognition of this regime, in most of the decisions, actions, declarations and positions of the UN General Assembly regarding the Palestinian issue, Turkey always He took the side of Palestinians and Arabs. For example, in 1947 and when voting on the partition resolution of Palestine, Turkey, along with most of the Muslim countries and the third world, and also in opposition to the United States America and Soviet Union, While opposing the partition plan of Palestine and emphasizing the right to self-determination of the original inhabitants of this land, he supported the Palestinians and Arabs. Therefore, the recognition of the Zionist regime by Turkey in 1949 should be considered a turning point in the foreign policy of both sides and their mutual relations, and even beyond that, the beginning of the process of forming new regional equations and balances.

In years 1950 – 1951, Turkey also concluded numerous commercial and trade agreements with the Zionist regime. . After that, with the gradual expansion of commercial and political cooperation between the parties until 1959 and following Turkey’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), these relations were upgraded to the level of ambassador exchange. found.

Some experts, in examining this matter, attribute it to Turkey’s internal factors and the emerging atmosphere after World War II in the region and the world, and in explaining the reasons for Turkey’s tendency to Tel Aviv. After the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War, they say: this country’s pessimism towards the Arabs forced Turkey to create a balance in the region in this way. These experts even consider the formation of the SENTO agreement and Turkey’s membership in NATO in line with this goal of Turkey; Because, Türkiye’s relations with the Arab countries had suffered many problems in those years. Syria’s territorial claims to Iskenderun, the ambitions and expansionism of the Iraqi regime, Saudi Arabia’s ideological differences with Turkey and this country’s opposition to Turkey’s secular government, Egypt’s close competition with Turkey for a long time. Until now, in general, the pessimism of the Arab countries and their long-standing dissatisfaction with Turkey, since they were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, made this country try to create a balance with the Arabs in the region. Therefore, considering the influence of the Jews living in Turkey and their efforts to align their goals with Turkey’s regional policies, Israel was the best lever that Turkey could resort to. to create a balance in the region in his favor.

Turkey’s action at that time was considered a great success in terms of the foreign policy of the Zionist regime. The importance of the achievement of Tel Aviv only in increasing the number of governments that recognized it and so called The international acceptance and acceptability was not more, but it helped this regime to find a more conventional and established position for itself in a region where it was completely alien to the extent that other governments recognized it as an unstable regime and to be able to establish a framework for alignment and Draw a new arrangement of political forces. Considering these issues and the marginality of the political position of the Zionist regime and its isolation in the region, since the beginning of its existence, this regime has put two major goals in its regional foreign policy agenda:

First, trying to prove and consolidate a kind of Middle Eastern identity and introduce the Zionist regime as a normal member and natural geopolitical scene of the Middle East;

Secondly, turning the Palestinian issue into an Arab issue and changing the composition of the forces involved in the crisis, from an Islamic-Israeli conflict situation to an Arab-Israeli conflict situation.

In other words, the Zionist regime aimed to eliminate the Islamic feature of the Palestinian issue by separating the ranks of non-Arab Muslim countries, including Turkey and Iran. reduce it to a problem and crisis arising from the context of Arab-Israeli interactions. The proposal of the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, David Ben-Gurion, in the 1950s regarding the formation of a “peripheral pact”, consisting of non-Arab countries in the Middle East, including Iran and Turkey in the north and Ethiopia. In the south, in fact, an attempt to achieve these two goals, by overcoming the limitation of strategic depth and overcoming isolation and isolation Tel Avio was in the region. However, getting out of this predicament and getting out of this deadlock was not easily possible, because the mentioned countries, considering their relatively extensive regional interests and ties, were not willing to easily surrender to Israeli plans. Based on this, the alienation from the regional identity of the Middle East and the marginalization of the Zionist regime in political interactions imposed significant limitations on the maneuvering power of this regime’s foreign policy and its diplomatic initiatives.

Meanwhile, Turkey’s action in recognizing the fake Zionist regime paved the way for recognizing or establishing relations with Israel among other Islamic countries. In the following years, with the expansion of relations between Turkey and the Zionist regime and turning it into a strategic agreement, an attempt was made to present this agreement in the framework of “Middle East Peace”.

After that, when the process started with Camp David, which includes talks between Anwar Sadat and Begin It could have continued with the Oslo process and Arafat’s meeting with the authorities of the Zionist regime, two poles were created in the Middle East. One of these poles consisted of Turkey, the Zionist regime, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization, which accepted the regional existence of the Zionist regime and was trying to reach an agreement. The other pole was against recognizing the fake Zionist regime, which included Iran, Syria and Lebanon. In the meantime, the American plan “Middle East Peace Process” gives Turkey special courage in its relations with Tel Aviv. forgive In this way, Turkey’s long-standing wish to establish extensive relations, especially in the military dimension, with the Zionist regime was realized in the shadow of the aforementioned plan and became a clear and acceptable reality.

In this way, the Arab League, which in the 1970s chanted “no peace, no negotiations, and no recognition of Israel”, in the 1980s, especially in the early , raised the issue of peace and compromise with the Zionist regime; Also not as a normal goal, but as a strategic goal of which Camp David was a clear example. In such a situation, Turkey not only sought to expand relations with the Zionist regime and took effective steps in this direction, but actually became one of the main allies of the Zionist regime in the region.

This caused the Zionist regime to put a lot of hope in Turkish relations and to hope that this Muslim country, from Support Tel Aviv in regional and global forums. The noteworthy point was that Turkey played such a role for Tel. -a..”>avio performed well. In the 2000 meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Qatar, Türkiye made many efforts to change the resolution condemning the Zionist regime. Also, Türkiye was the only Muslim country that opposed the resolution condemning the Zionist regime at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa.