I can't get over how you have these pro-Ankara accounts that put out positive statements about Israel-Turkey reconciliation...and then days later are bashing Israel, bashing Israeli politicians, and spreading conspiracies about Israel's role in the region...ummm...
The reality of the pro-Ankara troll army is that one minute it gets the talking point about "wow...Israel and Turkey may reconcile...Israel's president is visiting"...but their real view...the entrenched one...is visceral hatred of Israel and sometimes antisemitism.
One can't talk about reconciliation and also hate the country one is "reconciling" with...literally I see these trolls backing Hamas...and then being like "oh there could be reconciliation." You can't back extremists and terror and also be fore "reconciliation."
This is the fundamental problem in the Israel-Turkey relationship. One country's leadership spent almost two decades trying to isolate Israel and backing enemies against Israel, spreading intolerance and hate...and this infected media and populist discussion.
One country spread conspiracies about Israel's role in Syria...even claiming Israel was behind some "plan" to create a Kurdish autonomous region "stretching to the sea"...part of the "Kurdistan is a second Israel" narrative...one can't push those conspiracies and also reconcile
The reality is that while Ankara was pushing conspiracies and publishing antisemitism in its Right wing media...other states in the region were opening up to tolerance...and pushing for a REAL and genuine, authentic new relationship.
Of course Ankara had plenty of time to push real reconciliation...noting some disagreements...but pushing for authentic tolerance and not pushing hate and conspiracies...but it didn't do that because it's real face is the negative one.
It's not that hard to be a tolerant country, and push tolerance...as opposed to using hate and extremism, religious toxic nationalism and conspiracies in media to get popular votes. It's a choice and Ankara chose the road of populism and conspiracies.
It's entirely possible Israel's President will visit Ankara...look closely for any attempt to embarrass him or slight him...look at media in Ankara constantly call Israel's capital "Tel Aviv" purposely in interviews as a way to underpin this...look for the symbols
The reality of Ankara's drive for "reconciliation" is that it wants an economic boost and to get things, this is not a reconciliation on equal terms or one that respects Israel as an equal, and one can see that in media narratives in Ankara which argue Israel needs Ankara.
That is why a tourist couple was detained to get "reconciliation" and then Ankara celebrated US dropping support for the East Med pipeline by claiming "now Israel needs Ankara"...it was always cynical and negative...and that's not real reconciliation.
Just follow the populist tweets of the backers of the Ankara regime...visceral dislike of Israel is part of the narrative...you can't hate/despise a country and want reconciliation with it.
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