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@Desert BTW, Turkish and Israeli deep states are likely not at odds at all. If they truly were Turkiye and Israel would have long ago stopped diplomatic ties. Economic, military (intelligence likely occurs as well) ties are intact not to mention the Israeli-Azerbaijani-Turkish relations.
Erdogan has to maneuver a domestic audience that, much like most of the Arab and Muslim world, (at least half in Turkiye), are heavily against Israeli war crimes in Palestine and behavior in the region.
Main fault line in Turkiye are the "Kemalists" vs "Islamists and citizens in large cities vs rural population.
But those divisions like every other in the world are diminishing everywhere as people are getting more and more similar everywhere regardless of country due to globalization, social media, technology etc.
At the same time Turkiye is deeply ingrained with the West economically, military, NATO etc.
The reality is also that Israel is here to stay (most likely) and that we need to find some way of coexistence eventually once a solution to Palestine can be found.
Do not forget that Israel is basically an Arab country ethnically. 20% of the population is Arab (Palestinians, Bedouins included, Druze) Israeli and 2/3 of all Israeli Jews are Arab Jews originally from Morocco, Yemen (many "Yemeni" Jews are originally from South KSA), Egypt, Syrian, Libyan, Iraqi etc.
In short if the region wants to truly develop, outside of a few small pockets in the region (GCC and Turkiye mostly), economic cooperation must increase and a EU-like model must be copied to avoid stupid conflicts. No other way.
Erdogan has to maneuver a domestic audience that, much like most of the Arab and Muslim world, (at least half in Turkiye), are heavily against Israeli war crimes in Palestine and behavior in the region.
Main fault line in Turkiye are the "Kemalists" vs "Islamists and citizens in large cities vs rural population.
But those divisions like every other in the world are diminishing everywhere as people are getting more and more similar everywhere regardless of country due to globalization, social media, technology etc.
At the same time Turkiye is deeply ingrained with the West economically, military, NATO etc.
The reality is also that Israel is here to stay (most likely) and that we need to find some way of coexistence eventually once a solution to Palestine can be found.
Do not forget that Israel is basically an Arab country ethnically. 20% of the population is Arab (Palestinians, Bedouins included, Druze) Israeli and 2/3 of all Israeli Jews are Arab Jews originally from Morocco, Yemen (many "Yemeni" Jews are originally from South KSA), Egypt, Syrian, Libyan, Iraqi etc.
In short if the region wants to truly develop, outside of a few small pockets in the region (GCC and Turkiye mostly), economic cooperation must increase and a EU-like model must be copied to avoid stupid conflicts. No other way.
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