Just before President Barack Obama boarded Air Force One to leave Israel on a windy Friday afternoon last month, he made a dramatic announcement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to normalize relations after Netanyahu apologized and agreed to compensation for the 2010 Israeli raid on a Turkish-flagged ship that left nine Turks dead.
Eighty-nine members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter calling on Turkey\’s prime minister to retract his comments blasting Zionism.
Israel has agreed to allow Turkish trucks carrying construction materials into the Gaza Strip for the construction of a hospital.
Israelis have been warned against traveling to Turkey in light of intelligence that terrorists are planning an attack against Israelis or Jewish targets in the coming days.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan severely criticized Israel\’s recent airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip, saying in a speech on Tuesday that the attacks represented a \”massacre\” of the coastal enclave\’s residents.
When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the United Nations this week, he likely will repeat his demand that the world body “raise the Palestinian flag” without acknowledging that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refuses to negotiate with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders still call for the destruction of Israel.
The Turkish government announced it will return property confiscated from Jews and Christians over the past seven decades.
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