Friday, January 15, 2010

Israel and Turkey Hope to Salvage Their Damaged Alliance - WSJ.com

"Israel and Turkey Look to Salvage Their Damaged Alliance

By MARC CHAMPION in Istanbul and JOSHUA MITNICK in Tel Aviv

The militaries of Israel and Turkey are trying to salvage an alliance severely damaged as Ankara realigns its position in the Middle East.

A one-day trip to Turkey by Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak on Sunday will be the highest-level visit by an Israeli or Turkish official to the other country since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's explosive confrontation over the Gaza conflict with President Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2009."

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