Erdogan drift towards Iran accelerating after Trump-brokered Middle East deals

Turkey has been drifting away from the United States and towards Iran and that trend has accelerated since the United States brokered normalization agreements between Israel and several Gulf states, the Washington Examiner said. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of abusing the Palestinian people and lashed President Trump and Persian Gulf nations as “collaborators” during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday. “The Palestinian people have stood up against Israel’s policies of oppression, violence, and intimidation for more than half a century,” Erdogan said, condemning Trump’s peace deal between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain…