The recent visit by Pope Francis to Turkey at the end of November was the fourth time a pope has visited the country. This visit occurred at a critical time with Turkey left in a very tight spot by the world. In respect to this, it is very significant in every sense that the spiritual leader of the world's 1.5 billion Catholics and the leader of the Vatican, the world's smallest but richest country, which has a serious influence over the world's Catholic countries, visited a Muslim country. Turkey has taken a different and special position on the developments in Syria and Iraq, Palestine-Israel crisis and the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi from the presidency in Egypt by General Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi through a military coup. Turkey did not stay out of the general trend on these three matters alone, as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu voiced severe criticism of the U.N. and U.N. Security Council members. The Israeli offensive in Gaza was presented as a fait accompli during the negotiation process that was arbitrated by Turkey between Israel and Palestine. As for Syria, when the first clashes broke out in the early spring of 2011, Turkey improved its relations with Syria to such a good level that it planned to hold a joint ministerial meeting with the country and thought that it was too early when U.S. President Barack Obama suggested that "Assad must go." It did not immediately sever relations with Damascus and strived to prevent a disaster through diplomacy. At that time, Turkey was turned into a target as it insisted on maintaining relations with Assad for six or seven months. When Turkey and Brazil became temporary members of the U.N. Security Council a year ago, Turkey worked hard to aid in reconciliation between Iran and the West on nuclear talks, but these efforts made Turkey a target once again.When the U.S. changed its position suddenly and decided to forget Syria, Turkey was left isolated on the Syrian crisis once again. This time Turkey was accused of meddling too much in Syria even though it argued that it was immoral to remain indifferent to a tragedy in which 300,000 people were killed and 7 million people have become refugees. Moreover, as moderate opposition groups were not supported in Syria, belligerent radical groups gained strength with the escalating violence. Today, the process that Iran entered with the P5+1 countries - the five permanent countries on the U.N. Security Council plus Germany - is running with the model that Turkey suggested in 2010. The U.S. now acknowledges that giving no support to moderate opposition groups has paved the way for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the problem in Iraq cannot be addressed independently from Syria. However, Turkey rejects taking part in any military intervention that is poor in strategic terms and only aims to undermine ISIS's power. Therefore, Turkey is being suppressed and stigmatized as an ISIS supporter, especially by media outlets and is being punished due to its stance on Palestine and Egypt.However, Pope Francis, during his speeches at the European Parliament and in Turkey made statements in favor of Ankara's position. For example, he prayed for Turkey: "May almighty God protect Turkey and make it a constructor of a permanent peace." Erdoğan said, "We agree with Pope on almost everything," and severely criticized the terror in the Middle East targeting Christians. We are going through years in which the rules of the 21st century are being set. Considering the Middle East only as a resource for oil and natural gas and only seeing Israel's priorities do not go beyond updating the Sykes-Picot Agreement. This means exercising a low-cost control over the region through tyrants, dictators and regional and sectarian wars and turning a blind eye to the current humanitarian tragedy.We cannot ignore realpolitik, power dynamics and national interests. However, I wonder whether this is the only way of playing this game. Can Israel be safe if it only constantly kills Palestinians and occupies the already minimized Palestinian territory, or with permanent and fair peace. How can the U.S. maintain a healthy relation between spreading democracy around the world and being a world leader? And by building peace or by delivering its foreign policy to lobbies? I think that Francis found Turkey's attitude fairer than those of the U.S. and EU, and that is why he preferred to call Turkey "a constructor of peace."