Kochi: India’s sustained commercial and diplomatic ties with Turkey despite Pakistan following Pahalgam attack killing 26 people in Kashmir has angered many.
Ankara’s strong defence ties with Islamabad and its allegiance to Pakistan on Kashmir has not made New Delhi review its association with Turkey.
Turkish Airlines is reaping major benefits from its codeshare partnership with India’s largest airline. IndiGo.
The two carriers operate joint flights to over 30 European and US destinations with Turkish Airlines getting maximum advantage, the Economic Times said.
“India is not a serious country. We feed snakes and then wonder why they bite us,” he wrote while reacting to the report. “We reward our enemies and treat our friends shabbily. We delude ourselves that countries like Turkey will give up their hostility. They benefit from us and then stab us openly,” Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, said.
India helped Turkey after being hit by a devastating earthquake.
The codeshare agreement allows passengers to book through either carrier while flying across a shared network of destinations, including major US cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, and Atlanta.
IndiGo had similar arrangements with nine other global carriers.
Six Turkish military transport aircraft reportedly landed in Pakistan last Sunday to deliver defence cargo days after the Pahalgam attack.
Turkey has supplied Pakistan with Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci drones, and the two countries are collaborating on the KAAN fifth-generation fighter jet.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a visit to Pakistan, backed Islamabad’s position on Kashmir early this year.
