Is Turkish-Israeli normalization on track?
All signs point to the beginning of a thaw in Israeli-Turkish relations.
According to a statement by a senior Israeli official to Turkey’s Jewish community newspaper Salom, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns from Japan on Friday, the agreement with Turkey will be signed and relations between the two countries will return to normal as soon as possible.
As Salom reported, when Netanyahu signs the agreement, the four-year deadlock between the two countries, which began with the Israeli attack in May 2010 on the Mavi Marmara ferryboat trying to break the blockade of Gaza, will end. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said last week that questions between the two countries have mostly been resolved.
