Ankara is seriously concerned about the extension of the war in Lebanon and the effects it may have on the wider region.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, speaking yesterday at an investment conference in Istanbul, pointed his arrows at the international community that allowed the actions of Israel, which, he said, continues to receive weapons and ammunition from its supporters, implying the US.

Fidan sees global hypocrisy

He stressed that Israel’s “politics of madness” should not be allowed to spread to Lebanon and other countries in the region. In the same tones and the interview yesterday of the Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan on the Turkish network TRT from New York. He spoke of Israel’s desire to escalate the war from Gaza to Lebanon and then to the wider region. For Fidan the great tragedy, greater than Gaza, is the hypocrisy and ineffectiveness of the international system. He said that international institutions, such as the UN, do not work and the worrying thing is that “all the power of the USA is at the disposal of Israel”.

Targeting all of Islam

Following the recent death of Haniya, the head of Turkey-friendly Sunni Hamas, the death of Hassan Nasrallah, a powerful leader of the Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah, shows that Israel is targeting the entire spectrum of Islam, raising the fears of the Sunni leadership. of Tayyip Erdogan. Haqqan Fidan called Nasrallah’s death a “significant loss” for both Hezbollah and Iran. He said his loss would be felt in the region and expressed concern that Israel’s actions could draw its allies into a wider conflict.

Data change

Ankara has invested politically and diplomatically in Gaza by projecting itself as the country that has offered the most support while the Palestinian has become the focus of Erdogan’s rhetoric at home for his religious Sunni voters. The extension of his war to the Shiite front in Lebanon may force Ankara to change its rhetoric.