A central element of the author’s argument is President Erdogan’s explicit calls for Israel’s destruction, most notably his March 2025 Eid al-Fitr speech praying for the devastation of “Zionist Israel.” The author views this as part of a decade-long record of Turkish patronage for Hamas, including safehouses, passports, and political support. Most notably now even more Israel’s red lines on Turkey align with Greece and Cyprus amid rising destabilisation as a result of expansionist Turkey.
This, he writes, forms an indisputable red line that neither American reassurance nor mediation efforts can soften. The parallel for Greece and Cyprus is striking: Turkey’s hostility to Hellenic sovereignty and its revisionism in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean reveal a similar refusal to recognise borders, law, or the legitimacy of neighbouring states.
The Mediterranean triangle: Israel–Greece–Cyprus as a pillar of stability
The article places particular emphasis on Israel’s strategic partnership with Greece and Cyprus, describing it as an “axis of stability” founded on:
- Energy cooperation (EastMed, EuroAsia Interconnector)
- Joint naval and air exercises
- Intelligence coordination
- Search-and-rescue frameworks
- Shared defence postures against revisionism and hybrid threats
In the author’s view, this trilateral alliance has become essential precisely because Turkey is “the revisionist variable in an otherwise stabilising Mediterranean.”
America’s view of Turkey vs. Israel’s geographic reality
Another key theme is the divergence between Washington and Jerusalem on Turkey’s regional role.
Where Washington sees Ankara as a tool for influence in Syria, the Caucasus, and the Black Sea, Israel sees risk:
- Iranian proxies manoeuvring under Turkish protection in Syria
- Turkey leveraging the “Middle Corridor” to expand its geopolitical reach
- Ankara using NATO status to shield destabilising behaviour from meaningful accountability
The author argues that this divergence mirrors longstanding Greek and Cypriot frustrations with Washington’s unwillingness to confront Ankara’s behaviour directly.
On IMEC, Kazakhstan, and the strategic map
The piece also critiques recent American moves — including Kazakhstan’s symbolic entry into the Abraham Accords — as inadvertently strengthening Turkey’s geopolitical orbit at the expense of the Indo-Mediterranean Corridor (IMEC), the infrastructure vision linking:
India–Israel–Greece–Cyprus–Saudi Arabia–Jordan–UAE–EU
The author argues that strengthening Turkey’s “Middle Corridor” while IMEC is stalled by Red Sea instability risks diluting a shared strategic narrative that unites Israel, Greece, Cyprus, and major Arab partners.
Red lines, sovereignty, and the Eastern Mediterranean democracies
The overarching message is clear:
Israel will not compromise its security or legitimacy to satisfy diplomatic optimism about Turkey — not even when that optimism comes from Washington.
According to the author, the same applies to Greece and Cyprus, whose sovereignty and maritime rights remain under constant challenge from Ankara.
The piece concludes with a firm principle shared by all three democracies:
True alliances require honesty.
Respecting sovereignty sometimes means saying “no” — to friends, to pressure, and to illusions.
As long as Turkey continues its current course — supporting Hamas, undermining neighbours, weaponising courts, violating EEZs, and escalating regional tension — the author argues that reconciliation without fundamental change is impossible.
Israel, Greece, and Cyprus will continue to coordinate quietly but decisively, guarding their security and regional stability in the face of persistent Turkish revisionism.
