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Are Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in tune on foreign policy? This is a question diplomats in Ankara are asking after some mixed signals on this score. Turkey’s relations with Israel and Egypt are two cases in point which indicate that Erdogan and Davutoglu may not be speaking from the same script.
Davutoglu told the Turkish A-HBR news channel on Feb. 9 that the Turkish-Israeli relationship “was closer to normalization than ever.” His remarks followed press reports indicating that a compensation deal was near closing for the nine Turks killed by Israeli commandos on May 31, 2010, when their aid ship the Mavi Marmara tried to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
