In a severe political controversy, Turkey is the lack of a loud reaction by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Gaza residents.
The president of the Republican Party (CHP) of the opposition, Ozgur Ozel, from Alexandreta, where he was found on Friday, said that “President Erdogan is silent on the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians,” It comes to an agreement with Israel and the US. He is satisfied with the role given to him in the Middle East and this role involves the uproar and the expulsion of the Palestinians by Gaza. “
He also added that Erdogan “has no right to silence, because the vast majority of those who voted for him did so that he had maintained Turkey’s traditional attitude in favor of Palestine and his previous rhetoric. If he now turns his face to Israel and his back to Palestine, he will lose his legalization. “
A spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Omer Celik, who spoke of Ozgur’s “political blunder” today, responded to CHP president today.
“Our president is the only political leader who expresses the truths that no one dares to say about the Palestinian affair in the clearest way in all national and international forums he has found throughout his political course,” he wrote in His post on X and later reiterated in an interview with CNN Turk Omer Celik.
He also clarified that President Erdogan’s position “has been expressed in the most clear way in the statements made by both our party and our government.”
It is noted that statements of rejection and complaint by the Trump Plan for Gaza have made only Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and the President of the National Assembly Numan Kurtulmes. The Turkish Foreign Minister has gone the “unacceptable” plan, stressing that the displacement of the Gaza population “is a situation that neither the region nor we will accept,” he added. President Erdogan himself, however, did not directly place the issue and simply reiterated his call to the international community for a solution of two states on the Palestinian issue. “
The AKP spokesman pointed out this position of the Turkish president, responding to the criticism of the CHP president: “The clear position of our president on the US government’s approach has been expressed in the most clear way in the statements made by our party so much. as well as our government. Our President considers the creation of an independent, sovereign and geographically single Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with Eastern Jerusalem as one of the most fundamental principles of his political life. “
He also accused Ozel for calling Hamas Terrorists “during the hottest days of Israel’s genocide and murder acts”, while Erdogan “opposed those who call Hamas Terrorists and characterized his members who defend their homeland. “
CHP spokesman Deniz Yutzel reacted to Omer Celik’s statements, stressing, among other things: “It is understood that this attitude is part of the government’s attempt to conceal the events from society and to cover Erdogan’s silence.”
Attack on Erdogan and by Imamoglou
At the same wavelength as the president of the CHP, the mayor of Constantinople, Ekrem Imamoglou, who belongs to the same party and who is targeted by the government through continuous judicial prosecutions, also moved. “My advice to him (Erdogan) is to show the US president, who said that ‘Gaza will become US territory’, the same permanent cruelty that shows me, which I have no immunity. For three days, you haven’t said a word about what heavy words are heard about Gaza, which you have been protecting for two years, “Imamoglu said.
Among those who rushed to defend Erdogan was the director of the Hurriyet newspaper, Ahmet Hakan, one of the most ardent supporters of the Turkish president in the country. In an article – an open letter signed by himself and published in the Sunday edition of the newspaper states:
“Mr President, it is very right not to give a harsh response to Trump. Don’t pay attention to the opposition that asks “why don’t you answer”. They don’t do this for the good of Gaza. They want to prevent the possibility of a dialogue with Trump. Mr President, do not give Trump the answer he deserves. The greatest grace you can do for Gaza is not to give Trump a meaningful answer. The biggest good you can do for Gaza is through the dialogue with Trump. “
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