Turkey appoints new ambassador to Israel as ties heat
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has appointed a new ambassador to Israel, the condition-operate news agency documented Thursday, in the most current phase amongst the two countries’ initiatives towards normalizing ties.
Sakir Ozkan Torunlar, a senior diplomat who had served as Turkey’s consul basic in Jerusalem among 2010 and 2013, was named to the post, Anadolu Agency claimed.
He can take up the position four several years immediately after Turkey withdrew its ambassador from Israel and ousted Israel’s ambassador in protest of the killing of dozens of Palestinians by Israeli gunfire for the duration of protests alongside the frontier with Gaza.
Israel and Turkey when enjoyed heat relations but relations commenced to sour adhering to the election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an outspoken critic of Israel’s therapy of the Palestinians, as prime minister in 2003. Tensions peaked in 2010, when Israeli forces stormed a Turkish ship that broke by way of an Israeli blockade to supply humanitarian assist to the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip. 9 Turkish activists ended up killed.
In a phase toward rapprochement, Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Turkey in March to meet up with with Erdogan.
Past thirty day period, Israel named Irit Lillian as its ambassador to Turkey. Lillian experienced been in cost of the Israeli Embassy in Ankara for the last two a long time.
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has appointed a new ambassador to Israel, the condition-operate news agency documented Thursday, in the most current phase amongst the two countries’ initiatives towards normalizing ties.
Sakir Ozkan Torunlar, a senior diplomat who had served as Turkey’s consul basic in Jerusalem among 2010 and 2013, was named to the post, Anadolu Agency claimed.
He can take up the position four several years immediately after Turkey withdrew its ambassador from Israel and ousted Israel’s ambassador in protest of the killing of dozens of Palestinians by Israeli gunfire for the duration of protests alongside the frontier with Gaza.
Israel and Turkey when enjoyed heat relations but relations commenced to sour adhering to the election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an outspoken critic of Israel’s therapy of the Palestinians, as prime minister in 2003. Tensions peaked in 2010, when Israeli forces stormed a Turkish ship that broke by way of an Israeli blockade to supply humanitarian assist to the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip. 9 Turkish activists ended up killed.
In a phase toward rapprochement, Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Turkey in March to meet up with with Erdogan.
Past thirty day period, Israel named Irit Lillian as its ambassador to Turkey. Lillian experienced been in cost of the Israeli Embassy in Ankara for the last two a long time.