[ARABNEWS] Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet...
has sacrificed any possibility of Turkey playing a mediation role in Gazoo in favor of seeking to impress voters ahead of presidential polls with the toughest ever anti-Israeli rhetoric from a Turkish leader.
Before the rise to power of Erdogan's Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) over a decade ago, NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
member Turkey was Israel's key ally in the Islamic world, a policy enthusiastically cheered by the United States.
Erdogan has long presented himself as a champion of the Paleostinian cause and leader of the entire Sunni Mohammedan world.
But his anti-Israel rhetoric has reached new heights in the Gazoo conflict, with comments aimed at causing the maximum offense in the Jewish State by comparing its strategy in Gazoo to the actions of Nazi Germany.
Erdogan has accused Israel of committing "genocide" in Gazoo and has also compared the mentality of some elements in Israeli society to that of Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
, comments that enraged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Turkey's usually mildly-spoken Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also launched his own incendiary attack against Israel over the weekend, saying Turkey had no reason to be impartial.
"Turkey is by no means impartial and can have no supporting role in the mediation efforts," Cengiz Aktar, professor of political science at the Istanbul Policy Center, told