With all eyes on Israel’s immediate foes, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and its proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria, one nation that could present an even bigger challenge is Turkey.

Turkey’s military is one of the largest in the region, on par with both Egypt and Iran, and is considered one of the top 15 militaries in the world, according to most military magazines.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivered a speech over the weekend at an anti-Israel rally in which he told attendees that Israel was responsible for war crimes and framed Hamas as “freedom fighters.”

He then went further to suggest that Turkey may need to intervene in Gaza, saying Turkey can “come at any night unexpectedly,” to an ecstatic reception from the hundreds of thousands of attendees who chanted in response: ‘Turkish military to Gaza.’

Some experts warn that Erdogan is trying to appear as the champion of Islam, much like Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. As such, Turkey has emerged as one of the primary antagonists of Israel in the Middle East over the past few decades.

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