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What Explains Turkey s Sudden Charm Offensive on Israel? | Opinion
Newsweek
12/30/2020
Caroline Glick
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President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to make a statement after chairing the cabinet meeting in Ankara, on December 14, 2020.
After a decade of unadulterated hostility, over the past few weeks Turkey s Islamist president Recep Erdogan and his advisors have been waging a charm offensive on Israel. How are we to understand this sudden turn of events?
In the 1990s, aside from the U.S., Turkey was Israel s closest strategic ally. The alliance between the two countries was felt in everything from tourism to weapons sales, from business ties to joint training exercises. Following Erdogan s initial rise to power in 2002, things began gradually shifting. Fashioning himself a new Ottoman sultan on a mission to rebuild the lost Ottoman Empire, Erdogan began warming up to the Muslim Brotherhood, and particu ....

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