Enemies at the Podium, Partners at the Port: Turkey, Israel, and the Business of War

Enemies at the Podium, Partners at the Port: Turkey, Israel, and the Business of War

Turkey condemns Israel at the podium while oil moves through its ports. Professor John McKawim follows the business beneath the speeches, tracing Azerbaijan’s oil and weapons partnership with Israel, the pipeline through Georgia and Turkey, shipping routes off Cyprus, and the struggle over Iraq’s Kirkuk crude. Through the evolution of Israel’s Periphery Doctrine, the episode connects pressure on Iran, Armenia’s abandonment, and the devastation of Nagorno-Karabakh to the wider machinery sustaining violence in Palestine’s Gaza. Washington supplies weapons and political cover, European capitals pursue energy security, and public outrage coexists with profitable arrangements. Who benefits when the speeches say rupture and the infrastructure keeps delivering?