From for or against the Islamism of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he becomes for or against the alliance with the United States. The outgoing president is in the process of regaining points in the polls which predicted him losers. From an Islamist, he became a nationalist. It is not known at the moment if this will be enough to allow him to win, but we must expect, if he wins, that he will withdraw Türkiye from NATO.

The polls show President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan losing to the leader of the united opposition, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, in the Turkish presidential election on May 14, 2023. This possible internal reversal is leading the outgoing president to radicalize his position in international matters. Until now, it appeared to be halfway between the United States on one side and Russia and China on the other. From now on, his political party presents him as the savior of Turkish independence in the face of the dark actions of Washington. By contrast, he presents his competitor as a Yankees henchman, which he probably isn't at this point.

The United States is thus paying the price for the attempted assassination of the Turkish president, and particularly the one that led to the failed coup of July 15, 2016, after Ankara decided to build a gas pipeline with Moscow and even bought it from him. weapons. In addition, Washington is blamed, rightly or wrongly, no one knows, for having caused the recent earthquake which cost the lives of tens of thousands of Turks. Public opinion therefore shares a strong anti-American feeling in a country that has given a lot to the United States since the Korean War (the Turkish army won there and fought a decisive battle, saving the United States from disaster) and much suffered from them with the Kurdish drama (the CIA took control of the PKK and encouraged its terrorist actions, thus holding “a gun to the head” of Ankara).

US Ambassador Jeffrey Flake ostensibly took the liberty of visiting candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Flake is an old-school Republican, a friend of John McCain, like him from Arizona, where they were one of two senators. He howled against Donald Trump's entryism and left the party to get closer to Joe Biden who appointed him ambassador. By showing himself with Kılıçdaroğlu, he thought he was doing well and doing good. Mistake: he gave food for thought to Erdoğan who hastened to declare: “Joe Biden's ambassador is visiting Kemal. Shame on you, think with your head. You are an ambassador. Your interlocutor is the president. How will you stand after that and ask for a meeting with the president? Our doors are closed for him, he can no longer enter. For what ? He needs to know his place”.

On a similar note, Interior Minister and Vice President of the Presidential Party, Süleyman Soylu, publicly condemned the US Ambassador during the earthquake, telling him to take his "dirty hands away from Turkey". ". All Turks noticed that the Westerners had withdrawn their ambassadors from the country in the two days before the disaster, as if they knew about it before it happened, and that they were slow to send relief. Soylu added: “Every US ambassador wonders how he can harm Turkey. It was one of Turkey's greatest misfortunes in years. They gather other ambassadors and try to give them advice. They do the same in Europe so that the US embassies govern Europe”.

The Turks, who are very nationalistic, agree. But the minister is nonetheless still a mafia and an Islamist, publicly denounced by another sponsor, Sedat Peker, now on the run. He revealed in a series of videos posted on the Internet that Süleyman Soylu and the son of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım used Al-Qaeda soldiers to overthrow the 2016 putschists. He delivered weapons to them via a private military company, SADAT. They were the ones who defeated the insurgent soldiers on the Bosphorus Bridge.

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