Apparently Hamas wanted to sabotage relations with Ankara before October 7th. This is proven by documents that the Israeli military got its hands on.
Ankara – Turkey is considered a safe haven for Hamas. president Recep Tayyip Erdogan After the terrorist militia's attack, it declared it a liberation organization that wanted to save its people and country. But relations between Hamas and Ankara were broken before the attack Israel on October 7th it wasn't as good as expected.
Normalization of relations between Türkiye and Israel bothers Hamas
According to documents discovered by the Israeli army in Gaza, the Hamas leadership considered sabotaging relations between Turkey and Israel in the period leading up to the October 7 attack. In a meeting, one of the advisors to Hamas's political leader, Yahya Sinwar, strongly criticized Turkey, writes Sunday Times citing the documents. The meeting between Erdogan and Israeli President Isaac Herzog shows that Turkey has been trying to get closer to the enemy for some time in its own interest. It continues: “The Türkiye “Does not want a Palestinian environment that is hostile to its policies, nor does it want to bear the costs of this.”
Hamas planned massive protests against Erdogan
In the document, the advisor lashed out loudly Sunday Times plan to threaten the Turkish government with “massive protest marches and burning pictures of the Turkish president,” buy advertising space in the Turkish opposition press and interfere in the Turkish elections.
However, the adviser says that “some senior people in the movement” would continue to support Turkey and oppose such measures. The Hamas leadership, he suggests, should demand $20 million from Turkey for its education and health funds, otherwise they would be turned against them.
Relations between Israel and Türkiye have been tense since October 7th
Relations between Turkey and Israel have remained tense since October 7th. The verbal exchanges have even increased. Erdogan recently had the Israeli one Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared to Hitler. He countered: “Erdogan, who is committing genocide against the Kurds, who holds a world record for imprisoning journalists who oppose his rule, is the last person who can preach morality to us.”
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya recently announced that 33 suspected agents of the Israeli secret service Mossad had been arrested. “In Operation Mole, 33 suspects were arrested,” Yerlikaya wrote on the online platform X. The raids were carried out in cooperation with the anti-terror police TEM and the MIT secret service. Yerlikaya also posted a video of the raids on X.
Previously this had Wall Street Journal wrote that Israel wanted to kill Hamas officials around the world. At the beginning of December, however, the Turkish president warned against doing the same in Turkey. “They should know that they will pay a high price for such a mistake,” Erdogan warned at the time. (Erkan Pehlivan)
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