Recommendable!
Keep in mind: Turkey is a NATO member! I think, the NATO membership of Turkey should be suspended as long as Erdogan (age 70) rules!
"... Turkey’s modern history was a whiplash between left- and right-wing domination until the mid-1990s, albeit with the Islamists marginalized. That changed in 2002 when Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to power. Through a quirk of Turkish election law, its 32 percent of the vote translated into 66 percent of the seats in parliament. Erdogan is easily Turkey’s most consequential leader since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
In 2014, Erdogan declared his goal to be to “build a religious generation.” While he treated U.S. and European diplomats as useful idiots during his rise to power, his true ideology now shines through. Erdogan made Turkey permissive for the Islamic State, and he has openly supported Hamas. Turkey is also the driving force behind Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the rebel group previously affiliated with Al Qaeda that earlier this week seized Damascus. ...
As Erdogan treats HTS as his proxy and simultaneously promotes Hamas, the question then becomes whether Syria will become Hamas’s new base. With their own reputation in tatters, Qatar has urged Hamas leadership to leave their villas in Doha, not wanting to anger the incoming Trump administration. While Turkey long ago welcomed Hamas leaders not only to negotiate and access international financial institutions, but also to plan and direct terrorist attacks, Erdogan is the master of the double game and plausible deniability. Therefore, do not be surprised if Erdogan offloads the Hamas presence from Turkey itself into Syria. ..."
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