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Platform formulas are sometimes enough to make a foreign policy. Have we forgotten it, relegated to a measured position in recent weeks, that Recep Tayyip Erdogan made Turkey branch off into the pro-Palestinian camp on Wednesday 25 October? In front of MPs and members of the AKP, his party, the Turkish president knew the crowd was won over when he uttered these words: Hamas is not a terrorist group, it is a group of liberators and mujahideen (fighters, editor's note) who protect their land. Thunderous applause. "Israel kills children, we will not allow children to be killed," the reis added, to shouts and chants of "Down with Israel."
This advocacy for a group considered "terrorist" by most of its allies was inconceivable until recently. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was banking on de-escalation. Ankara proposed a system of regional guarantors, hitherto ignored by its Western allies. But, in the aftermath of the hospital explosion...
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