The United Kingdom is coming forward as a intermediating force between Israel and Turkey, in accordance with the Israeli daily Haaretz.
The reason behind the recent move is reportedly Turkey and Israel’s shared concerns in Syria.
United Kingdom. Prime Minister David Cameron is now playing a third party between the leadership of the 2 powers in an effort to find common ground between the early friends.
Cameron reportedly tried to connect the 2 leaders by calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whether or not he had anything to say to his Turkish counterpart ahead of a July 27 meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
While Haaretz didn’t disclose the details of the message which was sent by Netanyahu to Erdoğan, it reported that Cameron passed on the information to Erdoğan during their head-to-head.
The relationship between the 2 hit a historic low after Israel’s deadly May 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla aid ship that killed 8 Turkish and one U.S. citizen of Turkish origin.
The attack was the climax in a biennial long saga of arising stresses between Turkey and Israel, during which the former’s prime minister walked out of the Davos Economic Forum in protest at the latter’s president.
Turkey has demanded a formal apology from Israel alongside compensation for victims and the families of the dead, but Israel has so far only declared “regret.”
