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When the Spanish government refused to join in supporting the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, something unexpected happened on Turkish social networks: an avalanche of memes, declarations of affection and promises of discounts at hair transplant clinics. The phenomenon is neither spontaneous nor capricious: there is a history of concrete gestures behind it, and it says a lot about how geopolitics is processed on the internet today. No to war. Sánchez’s Government has refused from the first moment that the United States uses the bases of Rota and Morón de la Frontera, located in the south of Spain and operated jointly between the US and Spain under an agreement signed in 1953, but whose sovereignty remains Spanish. Washington’s reaction was immediate: in a press conference at the White House with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump called Spain a “terrible partner” and announced that would cut all commercial relations with the country. President Sánchez responded by referring to the now legendary slogan of “No to war”, and the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, was even more direct: Spain “will not be a vassal” of any other country. Novel. This is an unprecedented position in the European context: the United Kingdom, which initially also refused to use its bases to attack Iran, ended up authorizing them under the “collective defense” formula in the face of Iranian counterattacks. France and Germany also did not directly condemn the US attacks. Spain, however, called the intervention “unjustifiable” and “dangerous,” and aligned its reading with that of international law, not with that of its Atlantic partners. The position has generated both the rejection of parties such as PP and Vox and the alliance, even if it’s in the form of a memeof ultra-leftists and ultra-rightists under the same flag. The memes arrive. Among the most unique reactions that have aroused this positioning There is the wave of affection that, via meme, is arriving from none other than Türkiye. open declarations of love across the Mediterranean, unconditional support without losing humor and offers for bald Spaniards who want hair implants. It is a movement that has arisen spontaneously and regardless of whether they reach us distorted from here (most are in Turkish and refer to their own memetic mythology), but the wave is fascinating. Although it has very clear precedents. Help in fires. One of the reasons that Turks use to worship Spain is the shipping in August 2021 of two Canadair aircraft through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism together with a team of 27 people. Spain was not the first country to respond, but it acted quickly. The fires that summer were the worst in Türkiye’s modern history: almost 95,000 hectares They had burned at that point in the year. The affected areas (Antalya, Muğla, the Turquoise Coast) concentrated part of the summer tourism and entire rural communities saw their forests burned in days. Internal indignation was considerable, because Erdoğan’s government admitted not having firefighting aircraft, and foreign aid acquired great symbolic weight. Recognition of Palestine. In May 2024, Spain made the recognition effective of the Palestinian State together with Ireland and Norway. Israel immediately withdrew its ambassadors in Madrid, Dublin and Oslo, but the reaction of the Arab world was the opposite: Saudi Arabia called it a “positive decision” that affirms the right to Palestinian self-determination, Egypt described it as “a welcome step” and Qatar welcomed it as a move towards the solution of the conflict. Turkey does not have an Arab majority, but it does have a Muslim majority, as well as a historical position of support for the Palestinian people and a foreign policy that, under Erdoğan, has maintained increasing distances from Israel. Spanish recognition in 2024 placed us as one of the few Western European countries willing to pay a real diplomatic cost for a cause that generates massive support in Turkish society. It was, furthermore, a decision of the Spanish government with a broad social support. They like memes. The political meme in Türkiye has a long tradition of using high-intensity irony. Turkish internet culture (one of the most active in the region) has produced memes about relations with Russia, about Erdoğan and the opposition or about Turkey’s position in NATO. Because Turkey is a member of NATO but maintains trade relations with Russia, opposes military intervention in Iran and has been critical of Israeli policy in Gaza long before that position was popular in Europe. On that map, Spain appears in 2026 as the only major Western European country that speaks the same geopolitical language as Ankara. The climax: the bald men. Perhaps the perfect distillation of the memes that capture the romance between Türkiye and Spain are those that refer to Türkiye as a hair implant superpower. The Turks have grabbed notorious bald men from Spanish folklore (that is, footballers) and planted them lush manes or have played before and after. Nothing unites people more than styling soccer players as if they were Famosa dolls. Header | @1907medya__ in X In Xataka | Going on vacation to Greece is not unusual. The strange thing is that there are thousands of Turks going to a Greek Lidl