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March 29, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000833017&fid=4111

Turkish-Israeli Rapprochement

(Globes) Yoav Karny - Six years after storming out of a debate with President Shimon Peres at Davos, three years after divorcing Israel to the acclaim of the Arab world, two months after excoriating Zionism as a crime against humanity, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is not a friend, not an ally, and not a polite neighbor. At best, he is a temporary partner for temporary deals. Erdogan hates Israel, is hostile to its very existence, and longs to do something to speed up the end of that existence. Three weeks ago, Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu invited the descendants of the last of the Ottoman dynasty to a festive dinner at the Turkish embassy in London. Among the guests was the grandson of the last Caliph, whom Kemal Ataturk deposed in March 1924. And Turkey is seriously trying to convince its neighbors that it has no interest in reviving the Ottoman past?

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