that’s absolutely true. if he was serious, he would stop buying weapons from them and wouldn’t make energy deals with them. he had the mavi maramara incident and the 2014 atrocities as an excuse during his term. but as he put it very well, it’s a problem only when he has a stake in the matter. when things “cool down”, he will turn back to his true self and make every agreement there is with them.

not to mention a genocide denier engaged in a prolonged process* of brutal ethnic cleansing of his own.

Netanyahu and Erdogan make an astonishing pair: two ethnic cleansers, each pointing the finger at the other for ethnic cleansing. And Genocide Joe is holding Bibi’s hand.

*: This is actually a source focused on the Kurdish resistance in Turkey and the early part of the evolution of its national aspirations rather than one focused on Turkey’s perspective or activity per se. I chose it because it quickly came to mind for me and covers the ethnic cleansing and cultural erasure of Turkey’s Kurds but was written long before the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, in which the Kurds of the Ocalanist PYD became ‘good, sympathetic rebels’ for American media consumption. I want to highlight a good source on the PKK as a revolutionary leftist/progressive nationalist party— an older source relatively uncontaminated by American opportunism in the Syrian Civil War, which I knew I wouldn’t quickly find on the first page of Google.