In fairness, given that this is a small unserious community with the objective of making fun of things, I didn't expect this much of a response

In fairness, this is Not The unserious community 😀

And if there is indeed a campaign by Israel to denigrate Erdogan

I was laughing at that notion. Erdogan only started to get loud (only verbals, no actions) against Israel after losing some local elections due to Turkey providing materialistic (actual actions) support for Israel, mainly through one of the ports in the Mediterranean. Israel is happy to play along of course since they are used to this (it happened before). The same goes for some "Arab" states (all British-made client feudalisms) who provide support through land (The gulf => Jordan => Israel) to break the partial blockage in the Red Sea.