Mick Hartley

This is not some fringe statement, it’s a senior member of @RTErdogan’s government openly threatening the conquest and control of Israel’s capital Jerusalem and expressing faith that Turkish rule will return.

This is classic neo-Ottoman revivalism, the dream of resurrecting the empire and the explicit rejection of Israeli sovereignty over its own historic capital.

When Turkish officials start fantasizing about governing Jerusalem again, it reveals the real long-term agenda, rolling back the post-Ottoman order and putting Jewish sovereignty in the crosshairs.

Israel should treat such statements with the gravity they deserve, not as empty rhetoric, but as signals of strategic hostility from a NATO member that increasingly acts like an adversary.