"Turkey no longer needs a close relationship with Israel"

The failure of Turkey's secular class, that roughly one-quarter of the population that Kemalism made possible, to extend and deepen the systematic constraints that he, Ataturk, put on Islam, must now be bitterly regretted by those who allowed themselves to think, in Turkey, and outside of Turkey, that Kemalism was forever. It turned out to be Islam that was forever, and anyone who lets down his guard, for a decade or for a minute, will regret it.

The example, however, of Iran, where the protesters more and more recognize that it is not this or that cabal of mullahs or Revolutionary Guards, or Revolutionary Guards supported by some mullahs (mainly of the HojatolEslam, not Ayatollah, grade and station), but Islam itself, that is the enemy of the mental and other kinds of freedom for which they so ardently wish, should be used, by the secular class -- professors, university rectors, journalists -- in Turkey. They should point to the protests there, and the suppression of those protests, by way of warning Turks of what more Islam can lead to. As for Syria, that police state, run by an Alawite despot and supported by an Alawite officer class, should be held up not as a likely, and welcome ally, but as an example of the kind of place that Turks should wish not to emulate at all, and if the secular class finds it must appeal to the Turkish contempt for Arabs, by all means appeal. Do what you can to save yourselves, and Turkey, from looking more like Iran, more like Syria, more like almost all other Muslim states (save for Tunisia) in the Middle East and North Africa. And if the secular class can hold on, and hold out, perhaps Islam will continue to lose ground in Western public opinion, as suspicions are aroused by the behavior of Muslims themselves, and then confirmed by the obvious examples of taqiyya-and-tu-quoque that no longer work, but merely infuriate Infidels. And as it loses ground, its image damaged by self-inflicted wounds, this may permit a comeback for the secularists in Turkey. Hold on, for -- perhaps -- the cavalry is coming.

Oops, surprise, surprise

"Strongest among men and women in friendship and loyalty to the Infidels are the Jews..." -

Turks are still angry they sold land to the Jews during the Ottoman Empire.
Israel - What the Muslims and Left Don't Want Us to Know

/For being such a geographically small country, Israel sure puts the Islamic countries to shame economically, scientifically, educationally, politically, ...etc.

It must be disheartening for Muslims to know they only lead the Jews in in the areas of despair, poverty and misery.

How quickly Turks forget... It might behoove one to remind the Turks that the first fully operational mobile field hospital to hit the ground in Turkey after their devastating earthquake was from ISRAEL!

Care to guess how many of their fellow Muslim countries did that? Nada...Zip...Zero!

The Muslim conspiracy theorists in Turkey have made up their own story about Ataturk. To them, he not only was far too friendly with his dentist, Dr. Ginsberg, but was most likely, himself, a Donme, that is a member of a group inaccurately described as crypto-Jews. They can't conceive of a Turkish patriot, eager to rescue Turkey from the political, economic, social, intellectual, and moral desarroi that results from Islam. So they must make up a story about him, and that is what the wilder ones among them have done. It's a story often repeated, and widely, not to say wildly, believed.

Looks like Turkey is getting ripe for another military coup. Those AK Party islamists are getting way too uppity for their own good.

As a Turkish, non religious (agnostic) person, I'm saying the claim that Turkey will become an Islamic state is nonsense. If you compare Erdogan and Ahmadinejad or other muslim leaders, you'll see great differences. Erdogan doesn't question existence of Israel. He didn't threaten Israel with anything. He never talked about breaking relations with Israel. He just criticized, nothing else. We in the Turkey got used to it because we have been told what to do for 30 years by European Union. Sarkozy and Merkel (Merkel is a Christian democrat) openly bashed Turkey several times but we didn't say "Sarkozy and Merkel are crusaders, we should be careful." We didn't protest United States for the movie Midnight Express.

Israel should stop being so paranoid and should be able to handle some criticism. You can be sure that anti - Turkish sentiment is much more than anti - Semitism in the world.