The Turkish PM made headlines by walking out during Peres’ speech in Davos. Erdogan’s demarche was calculated to appeal to Muslims and immediately brought him acclaim in Turkey, where thousands greeted him at the airport.
Erdogan accused Peres of “murdering children” even though Turkey does just that in reprisal raids against Kurdistan.
After being publicly humiliated, Peres turned the other cheek and phoned Erdogan – not to demand excuses or arrange for duel, but to excuse himself and hear Erdogan’s assurances of Turkey’s commitment to cooperate with Israel. Erdogan has no say on the issue because Israel cooperates mostly with the Turkish army, an institution largely independent from the PM.
When the army set out to dislodge him, the US and EU pressed Turkey to accept the election results that brought the Islamist PM to power.
Erdogan humiliates Peres in the nastiest way possible but this fool seems not to be able to understand it! Erdogan humiliates Peres and the whole country he represents. What do Jews think of it I wonder?
According to Israeli news peace plan between Palestinians and Israelis may be ousted by this behavior of Turkey “friends”.