Federica Mogherini: I’m not thinking of a Cold War. No. We risk a Hot War among different actors than the one we always think of. Not necessarily Russia and the United States, but Russia and Turkey, could be.
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Israel is in need of a country like Turkey in the region. We have to admit that we also need Israel.
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Shternbuch received from Yitzchak Chever zatza"l received from Chaim of Volozhyn zatza"l received from the Gaon of Vilna himself: When you hear that the Russians have captured the city of Crimea, you should know that the times of the Messiah have started, that his steps are being heard, and when you hear that the Russians have reached the city of Constantinople, you should put on your Shabbat clothes and don’t take them off because it means that the Messiah is about to come any minute:
Yosef Hartuv: The announcement of the restoration of Israel-Turkish relations should be seen in the context of Turkey having nowhere else to go. The basis for increased trade, including gas sales, is there, and Israel has weighed the price and found it acceptable. Israel will pay Turkey $20 million; Turkey will expel the Hamas leadership from Istanbul and will purchase Israeli gas.
It’s not as if Turkish-Israel relations were ever entirely severed. Turkey-Israel trade doubled in the past five years, to $5.6 billion. Turkish businesses have been shipping goods to Israel by sea, then trucking them across the country to Jordan and beyond, in order to avoid having to ship overland through Syria.
Turkey was and remains a conduit for arms and money for various parties to the Syrian civil war. Turkey also has bombed Kurdish fighters; deployed its forces to Iraqi territory and declined to remove them; and sold ISIS oil on the black market. There are allegations that the Turkish government knew sarin gas was transferred to ISIS across Turkish territory.
In November, Turkey shot down a Russian military jet, in the biggest move down the current slide of Turkish-Russian relations, which began when Vladimir Putin stepped in to prevent the collapse of Syria. [This is on top of historical animosity between Turkey, the successor to Muslim Ottoman rule, and Russia, the self-proclaimed defender of the Christian Orthodox Church.] Russia, furious at the downing of its plane, instituted a series of economic sanctions against Turkey, the most important of which is suspension of the TurkStream project, designed to boost Russian gas exports to Turkey. Turkey is the second-largest importer of Russian gas, after Germany.
Alon Liel, former Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry said, "Turkey needs friends." That is an understatement.
Академический ансамбль песни и пляски Российской Армии имени А. В. Александрова
Daniel Pipes: Turkey quickly realized they had riled the same Russia that had beaten them in war time and again over the centuries (1568–70, 1676–81, 1687, 1689, 1695–96, 1710–12, 1735–39, 1768–74, 1787–91, 1806–12, 1828–29, 1853–56, 1877–78, 1914–18).
