This is where the hypocrisy becomes impossible to ignore.
Turkey attacks Israel politically with theatrical certainty, as though Ankara stands on some higher moral plane. But Turkey is not floating above the system. It is inside NATO. It benefits from Europe. It benefits from the Atlantic alliance. It lives under Western strategic cover while taking shots at one of the West’s closest regional partners.
That is not moral clarity. That is protected arrogance.
And Europe should be more honest about it too. Turkey cannot keep one foot under NATO’s security umbrella and use the other to kick at Israel and needle its European partners whenever the domestic optics look good. At some point, the alliance has to ask what exactly it is rewarding.
From my view, this is not deep or principled statecraft. It is a double game dressed up as virtue. It is the old imperial instinct in a modern suit: take the benefits, reject the discipline, and act offended when anyone notices.