Turkey has repeatedly proven in recent years that it is no longer worthy of Western support due to its open hostility toward our other friends in its vicinity.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned Israel and pledged his support for Hamas. This is alarming, as Turkey is a member of NATO and supposedly an ally of Western causes. At least, that is how the West’s incompetent globalist bodies continue to perceive it.
Ever since the Palestinian terrorist attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7 of last year, which brutally ended over 1,200 innocent lives, Muslim groups worldwide have grown intensely unruly and hostile toward Jews and their supporters. Turkey is no different.
On Saturday, Erdogan said: “No one can make us qualify Hamas as a terrorist organization. Turkey is a country that speaks openly with Hamas leaders and firmly backs them.”
He followed this treacherous devotion up with the absurd claim that “[Israeli President] Netanyahu and his administration, with their crimes against humanity in Gaza, are writing their names next to Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, like today’s Nazis.”
The Jews are, unfortunately, not the only historical victims of the Turks receiving threats. The head of Turkey’s National Defense Commission flew to Azerbaijan in January to suggest another potential Armenian genocide in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The West has largely neglected Armenia’s desperate pleas so that it can buy Azerbaijani oil. Because of this, either Armenia will suffer another violent invasion, or it will seek support from Iran due to Western neglect and become hostile to the West.
Even fellow NATO allies are not safe from Turkey’s violent threats. Also in January, Erdogan declared that “our struggle did not end with expelling the enemy [Christian Greeks] from our lands and throwing them into the sea from Izmir.” A week later, Turkish analysts discussed how they could blow up Athens live on television.
Even more detrimental to the West is Turkey’s relatively warm relations with Russia. While NATO engages in a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine, Turkey continues its normal dealings with the country. It hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin there in February. And Turkey continues to buy crude oil from Russia despite NATO’s strict sanctions on it. For this, Putin sees Turkey as a good friend.
Somehow undeterred by all these bright red flags, America’s gloriously competent Congress allowed the sale of 40 fighter jets to Turkey to make it vote to enter Sweden into NATO. Another fantastic use of American resources.
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From its actions this year alone, Turkey has cemented itself as the most questionable addition to Western security. Considering its historical hostility to Jews, Christians, and Western society, this should not be such a surprise.
The longer the West pretends that Turkey is a part of it, the further it integrates itself into messy political situations and possibly even more wars in the near future.
Parker Miller is a 2024 Washington Examiner winter fellow.
