Hakan Fidan told The National in an interview that attention had shifted elsewhere because of the war in the Gulf and that “we need to get more pressure from the international community to put on Israel to let Palestinians get more international humanitarian aid”.
Hakan Fidan credited Trump’s Board of Peace with halting genocide, but said it has fallen short on its aid commitments.
On Iran: He said the truce can still hold despite Trump’s announcement that it was over. He said there was miscommunication between the two sides over the navigation of ships in the Hormuz.
On Israel: Asked whether the rising rhetoric between Ankara and Tel Aviv could tip into open conflict, Fidan said, “There is no reason to have an open conflict.”
He pointed to Nato chief Mark Rutte’s remarks that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a leader “who would not be provoked into confrontation”.
Fidan reiterated that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his political base were manufacturing an external enemy ahead of Israeli elections.
He warned that current Israeli policy has become a liability well beyond its borders.
On Syria: Fidan said that while European leaders were beginning to recognise the danger of Israel, they had not yet found ways of dealing with the problem, warning that attempts to destabilise the progress made in Syria could change that.
