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Turkey and Israel: From Loveless to Fracas
How can there ever be a lasting peace between a Zionist state and another nation where the president thinks that Zionism is a crime against humanity?
- Burak Bekdil
- Gatestone Institute
When Turkey and Israel decided to normalize their badly strained ties in December 2016, after more than six years of downgraded diplomatic relations, the first thing they did, as the protocol dictates, was to appoint ambassadors to each other’s capital.
With a theoretical new chapter opening in troubled relations, Turkey and Israel appointed two prominent career diplomats, Kemal Ökem and Eitan Na’eh…