author: Tyler Durden
U.S. Emissary Tom Barrack underestimated the expanding tensions between Turkey and Israel as a specified "retory" and pressed for regional cooperation between these countries on safety and energy projects.
During the panel on the Antalya Diplomacy Forum Barrack opposed the comments of any officials from both countries who suggested that they might shortly enter conflict. "I think Turkey is just a country not worth messing with," said Barrack.
Material: Antalya Diplomacy Forum via AFP
Barrack said both countries perceive each other's distorted image as a consequence sensational media coverage that portrayed both as expansionists.
"So if you wake up in Tel Aviv, read the paper, what do you see? You see a diagram on the paper of the Ottoman Empire 2.0, which is Vienna to the Maldives, right?" – he said.
"You wake up in Istanbul, you read the newspaper, and this is large Israel."
Turkey was the first country with a Muslim majority to recognise the State of Israel in 1949, and for most of its modern past enjoyed mostly loving safety and trade ties.
However, since the attack on Mavi Marmara's fleet in 2010, erstwhile Israeli forces raided a Turkish ship providing assistance to Gaza and killed 10 people on board, tensions have increased and the government is increasingly attacking the treatment of Palestinians by Israel.
"Next Iran"?
The latest effort to reconstruct relations in September 2023 – during which Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu rod They first met and shook hands in fresh York City – she fell a period later after the Hamas attacks on Israel of October 7 and later genocide in Gaza.
Since then, rhetoric has escalated from the political side of both countries and erstwhile Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in March defined Turkey as a possibly "next Iran".
The US government powerfully supports Israel's military actions in the region, including joining the war with Iran. However, Turkey's position as a NATO associate and US president Donald Trump's admiration for Erdogan prompted American officials to search to reconstruct relations between the 2 countries.
Barrack said in the forum in Antalya that the energy price shocks caused by the war with Iran proved the importance of regional cooperation to keep energy security.
"Everything comes from Turkey. It's fibre optics. We are talking about Azerbaijan and Armenia, which supply oil, gas, information, data and materials. Where does that go? How's it going?" He said.
"So Israel allied with Turkey, as did Israel of Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia could be linked to Israel and for the welfare of the people of Israel, that is the answer to me.."
Several fresh rhetorical statements by Israeli media:
Barrack added that Israel should go further and effort to establish cooperation with Turkey as part of the global Stabilization Forces set up for Gaza under the ceasefire agreement signed in September. "The most sensible reaction Israel could do is to encourage and affect Turkey to enter this force" — He said.
Barrack said that Erdogan's contacts with the Palestinian Hamas group were crucial to reaching an agreement on the release of Israeli hostages, and this happened due to the fact that Ankara did not mark this group.
Turkish abroad Minister Hakan Fidan besides met Barrack on Monday at a gathering that they described as "productive".
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.zerohedge.com/
