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Turkey wary after Israel's strike on Hamas in Qatar

Israel’s recent airstrike targeting Hamas officials in Qatar seems to send a clear message that it is willing to go anywhere to eliminate Hamas. This has cast a cloud of growing concern in Turkey that it could be a target, especially considering President Erdogan’s open embrace of Hamas and his escalating rhetoric against Israel. Henri Barkey, an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Cohen chair in international relations at Lehigh University, joins Thanos Davelis as we dig into this story.

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:

Turkey wary of Israeli threat following airstrike on Hamas in Qatar

Israel Risks a Gaza Ceasefire in Strike on Qatar—and Hamas

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