The author is the former editor-in-chief of the Turkish Daily News and served as chief advisor to late Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, late Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Netanyahu's ultra-conservative government has been progressively sowing the seeds of discord with Türkiye, especially after Ankara gained the upper hand in Syria and started helping rebuild the country24 August 2026
What Türkiye's president wants is simple: Israeli and Palestinian children being able to sleep peacefully in their beds. So long as the policies of Israel's hardliners continue, those children will never have reason to hope for a better future09 April 2026