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(S+) Turkey and Israel are getting closer: "We don't trust each other yet"

8/31/2022, 10:21:37 PM


Until recently, Turkey's President Erdoğan saw Israel as a "state of terror". Now the two countries want to mend their relationship. Political scientist Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak explains whether this can work.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog in Ankara

Photo: Burhan Ozbilici/AP

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