On the blood-soaked map of the Middle East today, behind visible diplomatic crises and high-pitched rhetorical wars, one of the most pragmatic and shocking negotiations in history is being conducted. This bargain is a clandestine bridge built between the founding reflex of the Republic of Turkey, characterized by anti-Kurdish animosity, and the existential security doctrine of the Israeli state, centered on the liquidation of Hamas. 

The concept of “necropolitics” formulated by Achille Mbembe, defined as the authority to dictate who may live and who must die, constitutes the common ground between these two states. The modern state no longer defines its sovereignty merely through borders, but through the absolute transition of power over the biological and political existence of societies. 

For Turkey, Northern Syria and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Rojava represent the laboratories where this sovereignty is tested through systemic violence; for Israel, the same applies to Gaza and Hamas. However, the outputs of these laboratories are being bartered today at a secret table. This involves the constriction of Hamas’s maneuvering space in exchange for opening the fate of a people in Rojava to occupation. 

To comprehend this process, one must transcend the shallow interest calculations of classical realist theories and examine the biopolitical continuity within the depths of the state mind. While Turkey and Israel have historically sought to design the region through strategies like the “Containment Doctrine,” they have coded the rise of non state actors, particularly dynamics like the Kurdish Freedom Movement that produce 

systemic alternatives, as an “ontological threat” to their own nation-state paradigms. 

For Ankara, the Kurdish question is no longer a matter of border security but a fear of awakening from a century-old unitary state fantasy. The deliberate destruction of the 2013-2015 resolution process and the subsequent development of the concept of total war have reduced Ankara’s entire foreign policy to a single knot: breaking the international legitimacy of the SDF. 

On the other hand, in the post-October 7 period, Israel has defined Hamas not just as a military rival, but as the spearhead of Iran’s regional hegemony search and a structure that undermines its own social security. At this point, the paths of the two states intersect in seeing each other’s enemies as “bargaining chips.” The logic operating here is the reflection of the state’s disciplinary power, as defined by Michel Foucault, onto the international plane. Turkey intends to use Israel’s immense influence over the United States security bureaucracy as a lever to terminate Washington’s strategic partnership with the SDF. 

In return, Israel demands that Turkey limit its indirect influence, financial flows, and political representation capacity regarding Hamas. This is a “threat exchange” rarely seen in the history of international relations. Two states place two resistance centers 

from different geographies on the scales of a balance; they offset the dose of severity in one with a promise of flexibility in the other.

This is an attempt to turn the freedom demands of peoples into intelligence files to be shelved in colonial metropolises. Especially considering the Mossad-CIA cooperation behind the international conspiracy of February 15 against the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, it is clear that the current negotiations are a rehearsal for a new wave of conspiracy. This historical continuity between security bureaucracies operates independently of the ideological rhetoric of political powers and keeps that cold monster known as the “reason of state” perpetually alive. 

This new phase of colonial necro-power is a totalitarian reasoning based on depopulating geographies, expropriating identities, and criminalizing resistance. Every drone operation by Turkey against Rojava feeds from the same theoretical root as Israel’s blockage strategy in Gaza: the exceptionalization of life. 

Giorgio Agamben’s concept of “homo sacer” manifests today in the flesh both in the villages of Rojava and among the ruins of Gaza. The state deems all forms of violence permissible in these areas it has declared outside the law and derives legitimacy by making this violence a subject of negotiation with another colonial power. 

Ankara’s rhetoric criticizing Israel’s genocidal attacks in Gaza while approaching back-door diplomacy with the proposal “remove the protective shield over the SDF in exchange for Hamas” is the very picture of the moral bankruptcy of modern politics. This bankruptcy is the shared sin of not only these İwo states but all regional guardians of capitalist modernity. 

The “Democratic Confederalism” model offered by the Kurdish Freedom Movement rises precisely against this necropolitical bargain as the “defense of life.” Against the alliance of death established by states, the life alliance formed by peoples around democratic modernity is the true antidote to these secret tables. 

The security apparatuses of Turkey and Israel act like two master players in a chess game, inciting the ancient peoples of the Middle East against one another. In this game, it is not pawns but the very existence of peoples that is sacrificed. Israel opening space for Turkey’s neo-Ottoman expansionism to break Iranian influence in the Syrian theater, in return for Turkey serving Israel’s regional recognition and security concerns by marginalizing Hamas, is a project to transform the region into a heap of “secured ghettos.” 

This project carries a character that destroys social ecology, targets the women’s liberationist paradigm, and institutionalizes fascism. What the Turkish state sanctifies as a “Survival Issue” is actually the possibility of the Kurdish people’s free will breaking colonial chains. For Israel, “Survival” means the total paralysis of the Palestinian people’s resistance capacity and the suppression of the awakening in the Arab street. Therefore, this hidden frequency between Ankara and Tel Aviv stands as a “strategic barricade” against the revolutionary potential of the peoples. 

The mortar of this barricade is mixed in interrogation chambers, isolation systems in prisons, and concrete walls on border lines. Both states provide diplomatic protection for each other’s extrajudicial executions by placing their own “internal enemies,” who are actually peoples seeking freedom, into the universal parenthesis of terrorism. 

The philosophical background of this dark synthesis is the “positivist-nationalist” mind inherited from the Enlightenment and applied in its crudest form in the Middle East. This mind views differences as “malfunctions” to be destroyed. The multi-identity, secular, and egalitarian order established by Kurds in Rojava is the greatest nightmare of this mind. The apartheid regime of Israel and the monist-assimilationist regime of Turkey feed on each other’s dirty methods to end this nightmare. 

When the technological surveillance systems of one combine with the demographic change and ethnic cleansing practices of the other, what we face is the “absolute control society.” This control is not only military but also ideological. The religious referenced resistance of Hamas and the paradigm-oriented freedom struggle of the SDF are being attempted to be melted in the same pot by the states. Yet, while one is a tool for gaining power within the system, the other is a revolution that radically rejects the system. Even though Turkey knows this subtle difference, its attempt to put both in the same terror bag is an effort to increase the bargaining power of the exchange offered to Israel. This is being staged in the most vulgar, most professional, and most shocking form of the state mind. 

THE INTELLIGENCE NEXUS, PROXY WARS, AND THE THEATER OF SECURITY 

The anatomy of this secret bargain is not just a diplomatic exchange but also a contemporary reincarnation of the historical accumulation of Middle Eastern deep state apparatuses centered on MIT and MOSSAD. The international conspiracy carried out against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan at the end of the 1990s is the most concrete and bloody proof of how cooperation between these two services can transform into a “strategic destruction apparatus” against the free will of peoples. 

The current “Hamas-SDF exchange” negotiations are a digitized and multi-layered continuation of that day’s conspiracy. When Ankara sits at the same table with Israel, to which it appears ideologically diametrically opposed, it actually meets on a colonial common ground: the sacrifice of all social values for the survival of the state. 

At this point, Turkey’s discursive protection of Hamas is actually a “geopolitical credit” it has accumulated to strengthen its hand at the bargaining table with Israel. This credit is designed as capital to be spent on liquidating the revolutionary gains in Rojava. 

Israel’s security doctrine is based on creating subservient or at least manageable areas of instability while weakening the surrounding Arab states. However, the “Democratic Nation” paradigm built by the Kurdish Freedom Movement in Rojava is a radical alternative that does not fit Israel’s strategy of inciting micro-nationalisms but instead takes the brotherhood of peoples as its basis. 

For this reason, for Israel, the SDF has only been able to receive occasional tactical support on a rhetorical basis and has never reached the status of a strategic ally. Ankara reads this reality very well and sends the following message to Israel: “The real danger for you is a democratic awakening you cannot control; come, let us soothe your security concerns regarding Hamas with my Islamist card, and you help me end my Kurdish nightmare.” 

This is a complete “fascist synchronization.” The reflection of this synchronization on the ground is the silence of Israel while the occupying Turkish army bombs the civilian infrastructure of Rojava, and the deep harmony between Turkey not withdrawing trade ships from ports while Israel levels Gaza. 

The definition of “sovereignty” discussed by Carl Schmitt within the framework of “Political Theology” finds life today in the “spaces of exception” these two states offer each other. Turkey has created a “gray zone” in Northern Syria completely outside of international law. The war crimes, demographic engineering, and occupation practices committed in this region use the exact same methods as Israel’s settler colonialism in the West Bank and Gaza. Both states legitimize their own lawlessness in the mirror of the other. 

Ankara creates a “norm of complicity” by saying to Israel, “Just as you declare Hamas a terrorist organization and besiege Gaza, I melt the PKK/YPJ in the same pot and besiege Rojava.” When this norm is combined with the silence of global powers like the EU and Russia, a distribution table similar to a new “Yalta Conference” emerges in the Middle East, ignoring the will of the peoples. 

At this table, Turkey’s promise to relax support for Hamas is also a confession of how easily Islamist ideology can be instrumentalized for state interests. While the representatives of Political Islam in Ankara perform Palestinian literature in the squares, they share coordinates in the kitchen with Israel on how to destroy the gains of the Kurds. This situation is not just hypocrisy but the necropolitical character of the state mind that is “above ideologies.” 

The Kurdish Freedom Movement defines this process as the “crisis of the regional agents of Capitalist Modernity.” Indeed, both states attempt to overcome their internal crises, such as economic collapse and regime blockage in Turkey, and political-social division and security vulnerabilities in Israel, only through these bloody exchanges against structures they have coded as external enemies. 

This nexus at the intelligence level is not limited to operational information sharing; it is also a “transfer of method.” Israel’s assassination technologies and targeted killing strategy are the fundamental philosophy used today by Turkish drones when targeting vanguard cadres and civilian leaders in Rojava. Both states carry out a “technological fascism” aimed at surrendering the body of society by targeting the brain of resistance centers. 

This technological superiority creates a “security theater” on the ground; in this theater, civilian deaths are coded as collateral damage while the freedom demands of peoples are imprisoned in the parenthesis of terrorism. However, the curtain of this theater is torn every time by the self-defense resistance of the YPG, YPJ, and SDF in Rojava and the unyielding stance of the Palestinian people. Because Ankara and Tel Aviv see this truth, they radicalize the bargain further, promising each other absolute destruction. 

The presence of Iran, which is in search of regional hegemony, is another common source of motivation for these two states. While Turkey is disturbed by Iran’s expansionism in Syria in the past and now in Iraq and other countries, Israel sees this as a direct existential threat. However, because the Kurdish struggle for freedom offers a third way that serves neither Turkey’s expansionism nor Iran’s sectarian hegemony, it is the primary target for liquidation for both colonial powers. 

The “Hamas for SDF” exchange is actually an attempt by all status quo powers in the region to push everything that is popular and democratic out of the system. At this point, going beyond professional analysis, it must be said: this bargain is the last great alliance of the colonial monsters of modernity. The ecological, women’s liberationist, and democratic system established by the Kurds in Rojava stretches both the mental and structural boundaries of these colonial monsters. 

Ankara is actually seeking a kind of absolution with this exchange offered to Israel and

searching for a return ticket to the Western system in the region. The promise to restrict the financing and logistics of Hamas’s military and political wings is a lever used to break the perception of Turkey as an unreliable ally in the Western world. 

At the other end of this lever stands the removal of the SDF from American protection and a green light for Turkey’s new wave of occupation under the name of fighting terrorism. This is the most shocking, most naked, and most immoral geopolitical gamble carried out over the blood of peoples. What states call “national interest” at this table is leaving one people, the Kurds, without status, and leaving the other people, the Palestinians, without resistance by imprisoning them in a ghetto. 

THE LIQUIDATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE RADICAL RESPONSE OF DEMOCRATIC MODERNITY 

This secret negotiation traffic between Turkey and Israel is not just a search for a regional alliance, but also the final liquidation of that fictional structure called “International Law” on a global scale. Hegel’s arrogant definition of the state as “the march of God on earth” has transformed today into a “death machine” in the personae of these two states. 

Ankara and Tel Aviv, while trading in each other’s files regarding the SDF and Hamas, are actually constructing a new rule of the global system: “The sovereign defines the enemy and legitimizes all forms of violence by pushing them outside the law.” This is now a post-modern stage of colonialism where the Geneva Conventions or United Nations norms have become mere ornaments, and the “law of the jungle” is blended with digital and military technology. 

The place where this universe is most nakedly visible is the attempt to destroy the living spaces established by the SDF in Rojava and the resistance lines in Gaza by placing them in the parenthesis of terror. Turkey’s equation of “Kurds in exchange for Hamas” is actually a “survival package” offered to each other by the two outposts of Western imperialism in the region. The Kurdish Freedom Movement defines this process as the “Third World War of Capitalist Modernity.” 

In this war, the fronts are no longer just between armies; they are between the status quo of states and the search for democratic confederalism by peoples. Turkey’s actions last year in cutting off water in Rojava, bombing schools and hospitals, and targeting civilians and civilian settlements with drones were produced in the same theoretical laboratory as Israel’s policy of total siege and starvation in Gaza. The name of this laboratory is “Necro-Politics.” The state must create disposable lives to sustain its own existence. Kurds and Palestinians are being pushed into the category of disposable lives at this bargaining table. 

However, at this point, the “Third Way” strategy of the Kurdish Freedom Movement is the greatest obstacle to this bloody exchange. This strategy, which relies on neither Turkey’s neo-Ottoman expansionism nor Israel’s regional entrenchment, is a system built by the self-power of peoples. 

Turkey’s expectation from Israel to “mobilize anti-SDF lobbies over Washington” is an effort to stifle the ideological victory won by the Kurds through diplomatic means. Israel, in return for Turkey deporting Hamas leadership or cutting off financial resources, promises that it can convince neo-conservative wings within the US to give a “green light” to Turkey’s occupation of Rojava. This is the buying and selling of the freedom demands of peoples like trade commodities in colonial capitals.

From a philosophical perspective, this secret synchronization between Turkey and Israel is the end of the “universal human rights” fairy tale of the Enlightenment in the dusty deserts of the Middle East. As Walter Benjamin said, “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule.” 

The demographic change and the attempt to erase Kurdish identity from the earth implemented by Turkey in Afrin and Serekaniye is a carbon copy of Israel’s settler colonialism practices in Palestinian lands. Both states derive legitimacy for their own crimes by covering the crimes of the other. Ankara’s heroic speeches saying “Israel is a murderer” are merely an “illusion curtain” used to make the domestic and Islamist public forget the genocidal policy it carries out against the Kurds. Behind this curtain, a professional exchange process is being conducted where the heads of MOSSAD and MIT share coordinates and bank account numbers over the SDF and Hamas files. 

At this point, it is necessary to clarify the stance of the Kurdish Freedom Movement and the SDF against this shocking exchange in professional terms: this movement is not just a military structure but a historical subject aiming for the democratization of the Middle East. Every decision coming from the secret table of Turkey and Israel is actually a blow to the democratic future of the Middle East. 

The liquidation of the SDF means the revival of barbaric structures like ISIS and the region being thrown into dark tunnels once again. The bargain conducted over Hamas is an attempt by state security bureaucracies to domesticate the Palestinian people’s legitimate right to resistance. These two colonial powers are so afraid of the united struggle of peoples that even in the deepest moments of crisis, they do not hesitate to extend a “saving hand” to one another. 

In conclusion, this hidden bridge established between Turkey and Israel is the expression of the modern state mind in its most pathetic form. The peoples of the region, including Kurds, Arabs, Armenians, and Assyrians, are the only power that can prevent the states from sitting at this bloody bargaining table. The “Democratic Modernity” paradigm is the radical defense of life, ecology, and women’s freedom against this “death bargain” of the states. 

Ankara’s demand for Rojava in exchange for Hamas is the last gasp of a system destined for the dustbin of history. From the perspective of the Kurdish Freedom Movement, as this shocking bargain is deciphered, the lies marketed by states under the name of “security” will collapse and the common will of peoples to live together will prevail.