Yigal Schleifer
By Yigal Schleifer
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News Controversial Turkish Cleric in The Poconos Challenges Tayyip Erdogan — Split Over Israel
In the aftermath of the attempted coup that rocked Turkey over the weekend, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has pointed a finger of blame at Fethullah Gulen, a onetime ally based in the U.S. Here’s how the Forward profiled the controversial cleric — and explained how his less-confrontational stance toward Israel fed his villification by Turkey’s…
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Opinion For Israel and Turkey, Breaking Up Is Easy To Do
When Israel and Turkey first forged their now shattered alliance in the late 1990s, there was much to bring together the two countries. The odd men out in the Middle East, both were non-Arab military powers who had either strained or outright hostile relations with their neighbors, a domestic terrorism problem and a strategic vision…
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News A ‘Love Affair’ Gone Wrong: Turkish-Israeli Relations Stand on the Brink
A few weeks ago, I was reminiscing with a member of a Turkish nongovernmental organization, a person who works on improving business ties with Israel and the Palestinians, about the golden age of Turkey-Israel relations. We weren’t talking about a decade ago, when military ties were solidified and the now shattered “love affair” between the…
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