Turkish Islamists exploit 'Useful idiots' Palestine.

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Turkish Islamists exploit 'Useful idiots' Palestine. (TZ).

Just like Iran has been doing for years, political Islamists -- who finally seized power in the Turkish government significantly eroding constitutional checks and balances, causing the disintegration of the rule of law and curbing parliamentary democracy -- have done a great disservice to the Palestinian people by exploiting their plight for domestic and regional ambitions.

The chief architect of Turkey's policy in the last decade in regards to Palestine has been Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who had served as foreign minister and chief foreign policy advisor to then prime minister and now President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Davutoğlu is a committed ideologue and a die-hard Islamist whose utopian perspective orbits around the supremacy of a Muslim Brotherhood-style international network of Islamists.

With the blessings of his boss, Davutoğlu has worked hard in the case of Palestine to reclaim ground among radical voices that exploit public sensitivities to long-running injustices and the occupation Palestinian people have been suffering at the hands of Israeli oppression.

In the end, the Turkish role that was long-cherished as a positive one and that came to be appreciated and recognized by Turkey's partners and allies including the transatlantic alliance, was eventually transformed into a negative one under the Davutoğlu-Erdoğan stewardship. Turkish Islamists' latent hostility towards President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Movement and keen interest in exploiting public frustration over the lack of political progress and lingering humiliation of the Palestinian people, has now stirred a backlash against Turkey.

Gaza-ruler Hamas is obviously favored by the Islamist leaders as Hamas' political leader Khaled Meshaal frequently attends private dinners at Erdoğan's house, often shows up in Ankara unannounced and has been an enthusiastic campaigner at Davutoğlu's public rallies in Turkey to garner support for the Islamists.

This obscured and short-sighted policy of favoring Hamas by Islamists -- who wanted nothing but to make quick cash on the back of Palestinians -- is threatening Turkey's long-term interests in a way no other government in Turkey has dared to do. 

Ankara is now seen as interventionist in Arab affairs at the expense of existing regimes, and a bully that loves to show off and boasts a condescending attitude when it comes to resolving the intricate and entrenched problems of Arabs in general and Palestine in particular.

Let me give you several examples I have picked up from my confidential sources to explain how Davutoğlu plotted to exploit Palestine for his own ambitions. Hmmm.....While making loads of money trading with Israel. Read the full story here.