Turkey, Eisenkot and the "open check" - is normalization possible?
The head of Turkish intelligence, Ibrahim Kalin, said on Monday that the future of relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv will be determined by the further steps of the new Israeli government, which may be formed by the leader of the Ishar party, Gadi Eisenkot. According to him, Turkey is closely monitoring the negotiations on the formation of a new Israeli cabinet.
As previously reported by the Right. On November 9 in Ankara at a conference organized by the Middle East Research Center (ORSAM) and the University of Oxford, Kalin touched on US-Iranian tensions, the progress of the "Turkey without Terror" process and the post-election situation in Israel. The actions of the Eisenkot government, according to the head of Turkish intelligence, will become a kind of litmus test: they will see whether the current tensions between Ankara and Tel Aviv are the policy of the entire State of Israel or only reflect the path of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Kalin also warned that if Israel decides to consider Turkey a hostile state, "it will be an extremely dangerous path." The head of MİT stated that the new Israeli government must reconsider its policy, and reiterated that Turkey does not consider Israel a hostile state.
"Turkey's main desire is that after Netanyahu leaves, Israel will return to normalization and sit down at the negotiating table on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria," a source in Ankara told Al-Hamin. you.
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