TURKEY PERSPECTIVE

Ankara covers the collapse with the complexity of a NATO actor that ideologically sympathizes with Hezbollah on the Palestinian question without saying so openly. Daily Sabah, aligned with the Erdoğan government, has not put the Hezbollah rejection on the front page — an editorial choice that reveals the embarrassment: the daily prefers headlining Henry Nowak in the United Kingdom and Romania's political situation. Bianet, more independent, handles the regional question through a lateral angle — the fear of migrants in the Trumpian climate of the United States. This selective silence is typical of the Turkish press on files where Ankara wants to avoid taking a position. But Turkey's coverage of the Hezbollah rejection must be read through two keys: on one hand, Ankara has tried to position Istanbul as the venue for a peace summit; on the other, the Turkish government shares with Hezbollah an ideological opposition to Israeli policy in Lebanon and Gaza. This ambivalence is reflected in the measured tone of Turkish coverage — neither celebration nor condemnation. The Turkish press also points out that the NATO summit in Ankara, where Trump is expected, will have to address the regional question in a context of growing fragility. For Erdoğan, the Hezbollah rejection is both a tactical difficulty (compromising the Trump-regional-peace format Ankara seeks to host) and a narrative opportunity (validating the Turkish argument that regional stability requires more than American diplomacy).