POLITICS

Turkish Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sedat Onal left for Jerusalem for a two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Israeli President Herzog´s calling Turkish President Erdoğan, who has caught COVID-19, to convey his get-well-soon wishes, brought together positive comments concerning the relations between Turkey and Israel.

Addressed to President Erdoğan and the leaders of the region, Israeli President Herzog stated that when sat around a table to have coffee together, the differences and disagreements would not seem so great and scary.

President Erdoğan had a telephone conversation with Pope Francis. According to the statement made by the Directorate of Communications, during the conversation, the situation between Israel and Palestine was discussed.

According to the report of Kan News Channel of Israel, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has invited Israeli Minister of Energy Yuval Steinitz to Turkey for a conference which will be organized in June.

By Dean Shmuel Elmas*Turkey and Israel are historical allies. Turkey was the first Muslim majority country to recognize the State of Israel in March 1...

While Turkey´s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the names of the new ambassadors who will be appointed to work in the capitals of some important countries, in the foreign press there have been allegations that Ufuk Ulutaş will be appointed as the new Tel Aviv Ambassador.

Israeli Chargé d´Affaires Roey Gilad, speaking at the meeting where the cooperation possibilities in technology were discussed, said that the trade volume between Turkey and Israel, with the contribution of high technology, could reach $10 billion.

Winds of peace are blowing in the Middle East. While the positive atmosphere of the deal between Israel and UAE affects the region, the Israel - Hamas ceasefire has stopped the attacks.

36 Turkish soldiers lost their lives in the airstrikes the regime carried out in Syria´s Idlib city.

Columnist Soli Özel met Ian Lustick from UPenn to discuss his new book “Paradigm Lost.” Lustick says that Israel thought repeated military victory over Palestinians would divide them, with one fraction willing to compromise, but that this policy eventually created a false illusion in Israelis’ minds of a weak enemy. Lustick says that this made Israelis reluctant to compromise with Palestinians, birthing the “one-state reality.”

There is no end to anti-Semitism in the national media in Turkey.

The 2019 results of Kadir Has University´s ´Social and Political Trends in Turkey´ research that has been conducted for 10 years, revealing the public impulses, were announced on January 15th.

Major developments of 2019 for Turkish Jews...

Bekir Ağırdır, the general manager of Konda Research and Consultancy, whose predictions for the June 23rd elections proved to be correct, shared with us his detailed analyses on Turkey’s political and social structure.

54 percent of the voters were sending a very important message to everyone, when they were in a way saying “stop” to the government mentality, which had spread to the mainstream of the country.