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What Netanyahu’s return means for Israel-Turkey ties

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sent a congratulatory message to incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, signaling that nascent cooperation between the two countries would profit the region.

MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images
People walk along a pedestrian overpass beneath a giant Blue and White electoral billboard showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) flanked by Justice Minister Amir Ohana (L) and Education Minister Rafi Peretz (R), with text in Hebrew reading "Blue and White or Erdogan" and "save Israel" in the central Israeli city of Ramat Gan on March 1, 2020. — MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images

In an apparent olive branch to Israel’s incoming government, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a congratulatory message to Benjamin Netanyahu, his former foe, for his electoral victory.

"I congratulate you on your victory in the elections and believe that the new government will continue the cooperation between the countries in all fields, in a way that will bring peace and stability to our region," Erdogan wrote, according to a statement from Netanyahu's spokesman Thursday.

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