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The secular Turks won the internal Turkish argument at that time. With the election a continued re-election of Erdogan the pendulum is swung back to seeing themselves as Muslims more so then what some co-ethnics would have wanted.That is not a good enough excuse at all.
By all means have no relations with Arabs after some Arabs, not all, betrayed them in WW1 but to recognise the occupiers of Jerusalem is a no-no.
If this was an Arab issue then we Muslims would not feel so passionate about what happens in Palestine. It is a Muslim issue.
I’m not justify it but highlighting the domestic politics that made Turkey do what it did.
As @Meengla pointed out, many Turks, especially on the western coast are wanna be Europeans. So since the EU basically told them that they couldn’t join, it really empowered Erdogan to show the Turks that they will have to look more eastward and southward for where they can play a part.






