Founded in Egypt in 1928, the radical organization "Muslim Brotherhood" opposed Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and İsmet İnönü's Turkish Republic, as well as the regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt during the 1950s and 1960s.

While Atatürk and İnönü fought for independence against the British, French, Italians, and Greeks occupying Ottoman territories, Mustafa Sabri, a traitor to the independence struggle, collaborated with the occupying forces. After the Turkish War of Independence, Sabri fled to Egypt aboard a British ship and later joined the Muslim Brotherhood.

Gamal Abdel Nasser was the man who nationalised the Suez Canal in Egypt, taking it out of British control. During this period, conflicts broke out between Egypt and Britain and France, and Israel fought on the side of Britain and France against Egypt.

The fundamentalist terrorist organization Hamas was founded in 1987 by Ahmed Yassin, a member of the "Muslim Brotherhood", to organize in Gaza.

In 1993, a peace treaty was signed between Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Izak Rabin. In the same year, Hamas began terrorist attacks targeting Israeli civilians.

Since 1993, Hamas has carried out dozens of terrorist attacks, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,600 Israeli civilians and the wounding of thousands more.

Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by a right-wing Israeli citizen in an assassination that is still not fully uncovered.

The US and the post-Rabin Israeli administrations did not prevent the organization of Hamas, but used Hamas as a rival to the PLO as an opportunity to divide the PLO, the forerunner of the Palestinian cause, and to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. In the process, Hamas received massive financial support from the US through Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the US satellites in the Middle East.

Israel ended its military presence and occupation of Gaza in 2005; Hamas began to rule Gaza in 2007, and Al-Fatah, the organization representing the PLO, lost its power in Gaza.

After Hamas massacred 1,200 Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, including women, children, youth, and the elderly, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel launched a massive attack on Hamas-controlled Gaza, killing tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and causing a massacre.

When Hamas was carrying out one of the biggest acts of terrorism not only in Israel's history but in the history of the world, did it not know that Israel would react in such a way?

Of course, he did!

Therefore, although the Netanyahu government is primarily responsible for the massacres in Gaza, Hamas is also responsible for the great tragedy in Gaza! Hamas does not act in the interest of the Palestinian people. Hamas does not have a singular monopoly on the Palestinian cause, and since its inception, Hamas has been the organization that has done the greatest damage to the Palestinian cause!

One of the first politicians in Turkey to establish relations with Hamas was Abdullah Gül. When Gül was deputy chairman of the Welfare Party in charge of foreign relations, he laid the foundation for these relations with the approval of Necmettin Erbakan, the party's chairman. Under the AKP, these relations continued to deepen and develop, and along with Gül, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu, who was trained by Gül, continued the Hamasist tradition.

History will decide whether those who declared "national" mourning for Hamas or those who opposed it were "ignorant"!