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Turkey’s Fidan Wants to Write the Region’s Rules. Israel Is Writing Ankara Out. 👇 Policy Note | @TimesofIsrael In his interview with @NikkeiAsia and @SinanTavsan, Turkish Foreign Minister @HakanFidan did not merely discuss Gaza. He asserted a Turkish claim over the regional order. That claim collapses on contact with the facts. A state that shelters Hamas does not claim authority over Gaza. A state that gives Hamas sanctuary, finance, passports, documentation and propaganda cover does not lecture Israel on Palestinian statehood. A state that occupies northern Cyprus does not preach sovereignty. A state that weaponizes corridors, ports, airspace, energy and finance does not design a free regional architecture. It forfeits that role. The two state solution is an Israeli interest. It preserves Israel as Jewish, democratic, secure and recognized. Turkey does not protect that horizon. It erodes it. After Iran, Ankara is the most consistent saboteur of Palestinian statehood: strengthening Hamas, weakening the Palestinian Authority, attacking security coordination and sustaining permanent conflict in the name of the Palestinians, against their future. Fidan speaks of order. Turkey manufactures dependency. The new regional order is already being built elsewhere: through EastMed, IMEC and the Vertical Corridor; through Israel, Greece, Cyprus, India, the Gulf and Europe; through ports, energy, data, insurance, law, intelligence and freedom of action that do not require Turkish permission. This is not infrastructure policy. It is sovereignty in motion. The Constantinople Protocol is the operating rule of that sovereignty: every Turkish gate that can become a veto - port, airspace, pipeline, cable, corridor, trade route, insurance, documentation, consulate or financial system - is replaced before it becomes a weapon. The Turkish-occupied north of the Republic of Cyprus is no longer only a Cypriot file. It is an Israeli file. Turkish drones, ports, intelligence reach, maritime grip and proximity to gas platforms, cables and trade routes turn the occupied territory into forward depth against Israel, Greece and Cyprus. If Ankara turns that depth into strike depth, Poseidon’s Wrath will cease to be theoretical: the liberation of the occupied north by force will enter the strategic calculus of the three states and their partners. A new order is not built by those who sustain terror and project coercion from the Aegean Sea to Gaza. Israel does not enter Fidan’s architecture. It makes it obsolete. @MFATurkiye 🔗 https://t.co/vgkIpudEzo