Israel Must Accept That Turkey Is Neither Friend nor Foe
The lesson of the recent hostage crisis.
November 22, 2021
Israel Must Accept That Turkey Is Neither Friend nor Foe
The lesson of the recent hostage crisis.
After being imprisoned for eight days on highly dubious espionage charges while vacationing in Turkey, an Israeli husband and wife were allowed to return home. The fact that the vacationing couple was detained in the first place does not signal the end of the once-friendly relations between Ankara and Jerusalem—which have been deteriorating for nearly two decades—nor does their release portend a restoration of those relations, argues Eyal Zisser. Rather, he writes, the incident supports a realistic appraisal of ties between the Jewish state and its former ally:
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