Feverish comments, some angry comments, and clearly visible concern. Since the first appointments of President-elect Donald Trump, Ankara seems to have been gripped by a slight wave of panic as the names of future collaborators of the next host of the White House are listed. Turkish officials were openly concerned about the arrival into the American billionaire’s cabinet as secretary of state of Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a staunch supporter of Israel and a notorious critic of Turkish policies. They were literally alarmed by the appointment of National Guard veteran Mike Waltz to the strategic position of national security advisor.
“Waltz, a pro-PKK advisor [Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan] “, reached the title Hurry up. The official newspaper wanted to recall the support provided on several occasions by this elected representative of Congress to the Kurdish militias in northern Syria, linked to the PKK, Ankara’s bête noire for forty years.
Silent during the North American election campaign about the two candidates in the running, he warmly congratulates his “friend Donald Trump” The day after his victory, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also ended up expressing his fears, but in a more moderate way. On November 12, during his return flight from Baku, where he was attending COP 29, the Head of State explained that “certain messages” coming from the Republican president’s camp were “about”. In front of journalists he added: “It seems to me that it is too early to comment on this. We expect Trump to take very different steps towards the region [du Moyen-Orient] during this mandate. »
The warning came from his ultranationalist ally in the government, Devlet Bahçeli. With the feeling of attack that we know him as, the far-right leader recalled the Republican candidate’s promises of peace in Ukraine and between Israel and Palestine, but above all he played with the patriotic fiber by remembering Marco Rubio’s proximity to Athens. . Before the group of representatives of his party, the day after the nomination of the senator from Florida, he declared that Trump had to decide whether “would respect international law” or if he “I was going to ignore Türkiye’s sovereign rights” support Greece and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean.
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