In my previous article in Al-Monitor, I said Turkey-Israel relations were in a normalization process.
But since then a Turkish court has placed an incredible and outrageous stumbling block in the way of this process by coming out with a scandalous decision in the symbolic court case begun after Israeli soldiers killed nine Turkish nationals (a 10th, Ugur Suleyman Soylemez died May 25 after four years in coma) on the Mavi Marmara ferryboat, which was taking humanitarian assistance to Gaza on May 31, 2010. The court decided to issue arrest warrants for the then-Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabriel Ashkenazi, navy commander Eliezer Alfred Marom, chief of military intelligence Amos Yadlin and air force intelligence chief Avishai Levi. The court further decided to ask Interpol to issue red notice bulletins for their detention.
