Journal of Islamic Awakening Studies

Explaining Turkey's foreign policy with Toward Hamas-Zionist regime conflict(2023)

Document Type : Original Article

Author

hossein karimifard

Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahwaz, Iran

Abstract
Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023 in response to more than seven decades of occupation and enduring many injuries and pains. Israel responded to the invasion by trampling all the rules of humanitarian law and attacking civilians, schools and hospitals, several thousand killed women and children and displaced civilians in Gaza.(problem)Various countries, including Turkey, reacted to this conflict. The purpose of writing this article is to explain Erdogan's foreign policy towards this conflict. Therefore, the question of the article is: What is Turkey? Has he adopted a policy regarding the conflict between Hamas and Israel in 2023? The hypothesis of this research, which is tried to be proven with descriptive and analytical (methodology,) is: Turkey's foreign policy towards the conflict between Hamas and Israel in 2023 is based on pragmatism and self-interested political action. In this way, on the one hand, it wants the continuation of relations with Israel in the political, economic and security fields, and on the other hand, it is trying to gain popularity and leadership in the Islamic world by adopting a declaratory policy and supporting rhetoric towards Palestine. The (findings) of this research indicate that It is that despite the tension-causing rhetoric and conflicts such as the Palestinian issue, in practice the relations between Turkey and Israel have maintained relative stability.

Keywords

Hamas
Zionist regime
Turkey
foreign policy
Erdogan

Subjects

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