Pak Sahafat – An international media Middle East Eye claimed that the Turkish president supports recent efforts to normalize relations between Tel Aviv and Riyadh.
According to the International group of Pak Sahafat news agency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a confidential meeting with analysts and journalists in New York that Ankara supports recent efforts to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Middle East Eye reported, citing several sources.
Two sources told Middle East Eye: “Turkey views efforts to normalize relations between the two countries as positive.”
A source familiar with Turkey’s thinking told Middle East Eye that Turkey supports reducing tensions in the region. He added that Turkey’s support for the normalization of relations is only a continuation of this general policy. He stated: “The process of normalizing relations could become a political lever for Israel to move towards smarter action in the region.”
In exchange for the normalization of relations, Saudi Arabia wants to receive security guarantees from the United States, to receive assistance for the development of the indigenous nuclear program and to reduce restrictions on receiving American weapons.
This source said that the agreement to normalize relations can become a positive lever and put pressure on Israeli leaders on the Palestinian issue. He said: “This event can ease Turkey’s relations with Israel because it will reduce tensions with the Palestinians.
In the past few days, Saudi media reported that Riyadh has stopped talks on normalization of relations due to the actions of the right-wing cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime.
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About two months ago, an American publication reported that “Mohammed bin Salman” rejected the White House’s request to normalize relations with the Zionist regime by the end of this year.
Analysts have previously said that the effectiveness of the far-right cabinet in occupied Palestine, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, has caused some countries that had started normalizing relations with Tel Aviv to suspend it.
Some other analysts believe that the agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia has caused the normalization of relations between Riyadh and the Zionist regime to face additional challenges.
Many of the Democratic representatives in the Senate, who should probably vote for parts of the agreement between Riyadh and Tel Aviv, are staunch critics of both the government of Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime.
In addition, the Saudis demand that the White House authorize the purchase of ammunition for the Saudi Arabian Air Force. A few weeks after entering the White House, the Biden administration suspended the sale of such ammunition to Saudi Arabia due to the war in Yemen.
Another obstacle in this direction is Saudi Arabia’s request to receive American support for the development of this country’s nuclear program, including uranium enrichment.
The development of Saudi Arabia’s nuclear program and the enrichment of uranium in that country is a source of serious concern for the Israeli regime, but Israeli officials say that consultations are underway to reach several solutions in this regard.
Last month, the New York Times wrote in a report about the obstacles to this agreement that the Zionist regime has come to understand that Saudi Arabia will not be satisfied with Netanyahu’s promise not to annex the West Bank and needs “significant actions in the field of action”.
It was stated in that report that it is unlikely that such “significant actions in the field of action” would be approved by the extremist elements of Netanyahu’s cabinet, and applying pressure in this direction could cause its destruction.