A Turkish researcher and writer, who specializes in Turkish affairs, predicted that Ankara's recent standoff with the Venezuelan crisis would widen the gap between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his traditional allies in the West.
Turkey has openly aligned itself with Russia, China, Iran and Syria, as Ankara preferred to back President Nicolas Maduro after Venezuela's speaker of parliament, Juan Guido, announced himself as interim president of the country, Thomas Sybert said on the website of Arab Weekly.
Washington has quickly recognized Gwaido, saying Maduro's government has become illegal and several South American capitals have taken a similar decision. The EU said it would adopt the same stance if Maduro did not hold an imminent presidential election.
The spokesman for the Turkish president, Ibrahim Kalin, used the label "Hashtag" (we Maduro), which widely circulated among users of social platforms in Turkey.
In the meantime, media outlets close to the Turkish government have been keen to promote reports of economic pressure on the Venezuelan president and compared what is currently happening to the attempted coup against Erdogan in July 2016.
According to the writer, the most prominent common denominator between Erdogan, 64, and Maduro, 56, lies in the great frustration of US policies. Ankara and Caracas accuse the United States of launching an "economic war" on both countries.
Seibert adds that this relationship between a "Muslim" and another leftist reference system, seem strange, at first glance, but Maduro and Erdogan share a lot of common interests, and to return to the back, we find that Turkey supported Venezuela even before the recent crisis.
According to Turkish expert at the University of St. Lawrence in New York, Howard Isinstat, President Erdogan's vision of the world has greatly contributed to the strengthening of relations between Turkey and Venezuela.
Erdogan views Maduro as a "fortress of resistance" against the West, especially the United States, whose relations with Turkey have been strained significantly in recent years.
The Berhantin Duran, a writer in the newspaper "Daily Morning" close to the government, Erdogan believes that only cold beautiful does not, because Maduro was a race to express its solidarity with the Turkish president after a failed coup attempt in July 2016.
Erdogan's supporters believe that if Washington's efforts have succeeded to overthrow Bmaduro it would go ahead to remove another leader disturbed in reference to Erdogan, and therefore, the lack of success of Washington in Venezuela will reduce the American enthusiasm for the heart of things on the international scene.
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Erdogan has consistently promoted conspiracy theory on more than one occasion by saying that Western countries are making tireless efforts to discourage Ankara from turning itself into an international force.
In addition to this political warmth in the relations between Caracas and Ankara, trade ties between the two countries have recovered significantly. Turkey's imports of Venezuelan gold have reached hundreds of millions of dollars over the past year.
Impose Washington's sanctions on gold Venezuelan trade, but the gold sold by Venezuela to Turkey, is being refined within the country, a NATO member, may complete his way later towards Iran, and this is a violation of international sanctions imposed on Tehran because of its destabilizing in the Middle East.
