Last Updated On: Jun 03 2021 03:50 Gmt+3
Turkey’s attempts to fix its once strong ties with Israel have been set back to square one by last month’s violence between Israeli security forces and Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Months of informal contact between Turkey and Israel testing the waters for a détente came to a screeching halt on May 8 when Israeli police stormed the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest site, after protests at the eviction of Palestinians from the nearby neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
On May 9, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan loudly condemned Israel as a “cruel terrorist state”. And Turkish outrage intensified after Israel launched an air campaign against Hamas militants that killed 256 Palestinians, including 69 children, according to the United Nations. On the Israeli side, 12 people, including two children, were killed.
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