By Ya’acov Zalel – Natural Gas World Turkey seeks Israeli deals; Turkish businessman in Israel for natural gas talks A delegation of Turkish businessmen headed by Ahmet Zorlu, a billionaire with interests in the energy sector, visited Israel last week in the wake of the two countries’ reconciliation agreement. Zorlu Group, one of the biggest in […]
The announcement of Turkey’s new ambassador to Israel is expected at around the same time. The two nations have not had ambassadors in each other’s countries since 2010. The Foreign Ministry appointments committee is expected to meet in the coming days to name Israel’s next ambassador to Turkey, following the Turkish parliament’s ratification on Saturday […]
By AP and AFP Nations set to restore ambassadors as detente goes into effect; ratification was delayed by failed military coup ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s parliament has ratified a reconciliation deal reached with Israel last month, ending a six-year rift and paving the way for the restoration of full diplomatic ties. Parliament voted to approve […]
Turkish leader can be expected to cite main suspect Fethullah Gülen’s past links to Israeli dignitaries, Bar-Ilan scholar Efrat Aviv says By Raphael Ahren Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is likely to start blaming Israel for the attempted coup that threatened to depose him over the weekend, due to a perceived connection between the Jewish […]
Brexit Britain: A nation at the crossroads David Semple looks back on ex-prime minister David Cameron’s record in office and looks forward to Britain’s emerging foreign policy in the age of Brexit. By David Semple Last year I wrote an article for JMA called “David Cameron at the crossroads” in which I compared David Cameron to […]
Normalization of bilateral ties will continue apace, Israeli official says after speaking with Turkish counterpart Turkey thanked Israel for its stance during this past weekend’s failed coup attempt and will continue with the process of normalizing ties, a senior Israeli official said Sunday following talks with a Turkish counterpart. The Israeli official said an unnamed […]
Op-ed: Once former allies, President Erdogan and is blaming US based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen for orchestrating a failed coup against him. While some of those involved in the coup do have ties to Gulen, will Erdogan use this coup as a pretense for further curbing freedoms in Turkey? By Tulin Daloglu Will this failed […]
Turkish officials are preventing access to and from the air base until they complete “anti-coup” operations effectively leaving America’s nuclear arsenal in the hands of the same Erdogan regime that just accused Washington of masterminding the coup. Movement in and out of the Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey was blocked on Saturday by local military authorities, a distressing sign for the […]
As with 2013 Gezi Park protests, attempted putsch unlikely to derail rapprochement between Ankara and Jerusalem, but could slow it down significantly By Raphael Ahren The attempt by some elements of the Turkish military to wrestle power from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the weekend will not endanger Ankara’s commitment to reconciliation with Israel, but […]
When we described the aftermath of Turkey’s failed, and painfully disorganized military coup attempt, we asked rhetorically, “Who wins?” To which we answered: “Why Erdogan of course. As he said during a press conference upon his arrival back in Istanbul in the early Saturday morning hours, the coup is an opportunity to “to purge the […]
