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Turkey to Israel: We Will Not Condone Genocide’

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Turkey and Israel’s once-close relations have been hurt by the Gaza war. Turkey canceled military exercises this week, while Israel protested a Turkey state-TV series that shows Israelis killing Palestinians in cold blood.



By Yigal Schleifer

Israel and Turkey’s once-close ties have entered a frosty period in recent years, particularly since Israel’s invasion of Gaza this past January. But ties
between the two countries took a further dive recently when Turkey indefinitely postponed annual military exercises because of Israel’s planned involvement.

Israeli officials this week also expressed outrage over a new drama series being shown on Turkish state television that shows Israeli soldiers mercilessly killing Palestinians, including one scene of a soldier shooting a young girl at point-blank range.

Observers say the new tension between the two countries may be another indication that Turkey’s changing domestic and foreign policy considerations are leading to a redefinition of the country’s relationship with Israel.

“In Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s ideological framework, Israel doesn’t play a central role. Things have changed,” says Ofra Bengio, an expert on Turkey at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University.
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1 comment // Turkey to Israel: We Will Not Condone Genocide’

  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • so one operation into gaza that lasted all of a month or so and left a few thousand out of 8 million dead is a genocide, but years of turkey systematicly killing armenians isnt genocide?
      hate whomever you wanna hate but do it for the right reasons not fictitious ones

    • 2 years ago
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