Over 1,200 people were murdered by Hamas on october 7, 2023 – civilians, children, festivalgoers, kibbutz residents. Abducted, raped, burned. How would Turkey react if it were in Israel’s place?

By rejecting the Bible, the Promise of the promised Land to Israel, the Turkish government is not only blowing up bridges with the Bible people. The people of Israel, to which the Messiah belongs, are an elementary part of the Bible and thus also of Christianity, which is also confirmed by the Holy Quran.

When Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly prayed during Eid al-Fitr that Allah would “destroy and lay waste” to Israel, it wasn’t a slip-up or rhetorical excess in an emotional moment. It was a political statement, and not the first one. Nor did it come alone: On the same day, former Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu demanded at a party event that, in the event of war, “there would be no country called Israel anymore.” Turkey, once a NATO partner and EU membership candidate, has taken a historic step: It is openly following in Iran’s footsteps and turning the destruction of the Jewish state into a populist message. This is no coincidence.

It is method.

The convenient scapegoat

To understand why Erdoğan is taking this path, one must keep the domestic political logic in mind. Economic problems, waning popularity, a heterogeneous coalition that must be held together —these make Jew-hatred come in handy. Those who sow hate reap approval. Erdoğan would hardly have stayed in power so long without masterfully wielding this instrument.

Yet the moral convenience of this narrative comes at a price: It ignores facts.

Who bears real responsibility for the dead in Gaza?

The narratives about Gaza circulating in the sunni/shiite world —and increasingly in Western discourse— paint a simplistic picture. Israel as the aggressor, Palestinians as helpless victims. Yet this portrayal ignores a crucial question: Why didn’t Egypt open its border?

Gaza borders Egypt to the south. The Rafah crossing could have been an escape route for civilians —for women, children, the elderly who have nothing to do with the conflict. Cairo decided against it. Out of fear that the sunnites would lose a piece of the promised land —it is not for nothing that the Turkish state is buying up real estate en masse in Jerusalem. This decision was over dead bodies. Erdoğan and Soylu remain silent about it. Because Egypt is not a jewish, useful enemy.

Israel, for its part, closed its border —and that’s its right. No country in the world is obligated to open its borders to those from whose territory one of the most brutal terror attacks in its history was launched, upon such an attack. Anyone who wanted to act differently should have first held Egypt accountable.

At the same time, one may ask why the second-largest NATO army, the Turkish army, was unwilling to protect the people it mourns. Other priorities likely took precedence.

October 7 and the standards of morality

Over 1,200 people were murdered by Hamas on october 7, 2023 —civilians, children, festival-goers, kibbutz residents. Kidnapped, raped, burned. It was a massacre unmatched in its barbarity. Anyone who accuses Israel of “genocide” upon either doesn’t understand the term or is deliberately misusing it. Genocide means the systematic intent to destroy a people. Israel is waging war against a terror organization that has hidden behind schools, hospitals, and mosques for years —and, following Hamas doctrine, uses its own population as human shields.

This is not Israeli propaganda. It has been documented by international journalists, UN staff, and independent observers. Hamas left Israel no other tactic yet to fight in urban areas because it itself uses those areas as weapons. The moral responsibility for civilian casualties thus lies not solely with the one who shoots —yet also with the one who uses its own people as cover.

Every country in the world has the right to self-defense. This right is enshrined in the UN Charter. It applies to the USA, it applies to Turkey —and it applies to Israel.

Ankara following Tehran’s lead

What Erdoğan and Soylu are doing these days is not solidarity with the Palestinian people. It’s demagoguery. Iran has been showing for decades how a regime sustains itself through hatred of Israel —while its own population suffers under repression and economic decline. The people in Gaza do not benefit from Erdoğan’s prayers. They need open borders, humanitarian corridors, and a political solution —not annihilation rhetoric from Istanbul.

Turkey, a NATO member and signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, is moving with such statements onto a line incompatible with the alliance’s values. When the president of a NATO country publicly prays for the destruction of the Jewish state, that’s not freedom of speech —it is National Socialist revival that must have consequences. The question is only: Does the West still have the will to name it clearly?

If the ratio between the fallen Israelis and the fallen Palestinians in the war —at least 1:60— has taught us anything, it is that God is not with the sunnites, yet with the Jews, who worship Him exclusively and not, like the sunnites, shiites and christians, also His Prophets.

All Praise to Allah.

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By Okay Altinisik | 26-3-2026, 21:31:29