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Erdogan says Israeli President to visit Turkey in March
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SME Times News Bureau | 05 Feb, 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his Israeli
counterpart Isaac Herzog will visit Ankara in mid-March as the two
countries seek to restore bilateral ties.
"With this
visit, we will endeavour to put our bilateral relations on a very
different ground for the future, in a positive direction," Erdogan told
reporters.
On the fact that Israel had sent its special
representatives to Turkey, Erdogan said Turkish special envoys would
also travel to Israel before Herzog's visit.
Turkey's relations
with Israel have deteriorated since 2010, when a Turkish-led flotilla
trying to break Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip clashed with Israeli
forces, killing 10 Turks onboard.
Before 2010, Turkey and Israel had long been in close relations, including military and intelligence cooperation.
Reconciliation
attempts did not yield full recovery of ties between the two countries
because Erdogan is a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause.
In a more recent spat in 2018 when the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem, Turkey expelled the Israeli Ambassador from Ankara.
The two countries have been working on a rapprochement in recent months, with Erdogan holding phone talks with Herzog.
On
January 16, the Turkish President said Ankara was interested in
resuming talks with Israel over transporting Israeli natural gas to
Europe through Turkey.
His remarks came after the US dropped
support for the EastMed pipeline, a rival project involving Israel,
Cyprus and Turkey's neighbour and rival Greece.
In 2016, Turkey
and Israel held a series of talks for the transport of Israeli gas
through Turkey as part of reconciliation efforts, but the discussions
were fruitless.
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