Sahin Demir<\/p>\n
28 August 2026\u2022Update: 28 August 2026<\/p>\n
T\u00fcrkiye has no particular “political value” in fueling enmity with Israel, former US Ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye Francis J. Ricciardone said.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Al Jazeera’s This Is America program, Ricciardone contrasted the political dynamics in T\u00fcrkiye and Israel.<\/p>\n
“(Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan, I don’t believe, has a particular political value in fomenting enmity with Israel, hostility, preaching to the Turks that we have an enemy and all that,” he said.<\/p>\n
Ricciardone said Erdogan “genuinely dislikes” or opposes Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, particularly in Gaza, and has long held such views.<\/p>\n
By contrast, the former envoy suggested that creating a perception that Israel is at war with another party could carry political value for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n
“We’ll see what happens in the elections that come up,” he added, referring to Israel’s legislative elections scheduled for October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sahin Demir 28 August 2026\u2022Update: 28 August 2026 T\u00fcrkiye has no particular “political value” in fueling enmity with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-598561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}