Erdogan’s associate: “Normalize relations with Israel”

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Ankara continues to wink at Jerusalem: An associate of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the father of the “blue homeland” doctrine, Admiral Cihat Yaycı, was interviewed today (Wednesday) by the Jewish newspaper Shalom and declared that “it is in the interest of Turkey and Israel to normalize relations Between them anew. “

As part of the partnership of interests, Admiral Yaji called on Israel to implement the proposal for a joint maritime border that was first published in “Israel Today”. The extended program was published in the “Turkiscope” monthly of the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University. Yeiji made the remarks after Ankara suffered another diplomatic blow in the eastern Mediterranean on Monday: Cairo and Athens reached a compromise on disagreement over gas and oil exploration areas in the eastern Mediterranean.

Israeli-Turkish confrontation live

It came just five days after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlot Chebushoulu said: “We can reach a maritime border agreement with Egypt,” Admiral Yaiji himself suggested an outline for the agreement. However, the diplomatic process created by the Foreign Ministry in Ankara is the complete opposite of their original purpose. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotkis spoke by telephone with Egyptian President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, sent his foreign minister Nikos Dandias to Cairo – where he reached an agreement with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shukri.

“The disagreement over one of Egypt’s three search areas was technical – and resolved,” Dandias said. According to reports, teams from the two countries sat together and redrawn the maritime borders in the problematic search block. The same conclusion directly affects Ankara, since the Turks claim that territory from the search block agreed upon by Greece and Egypt – belongs to them.

Yaiji’s proposal for an Israeli-Turkish maritime border

In the wake of embarrassment in Ankara, senior Egyptian diplomats told the Arab News network that rumors of talks between Cairo and Ankara regarding borders in the eastern Mediterranean are untrue. Beyond that, while Israel is progressing economically thanks to its agreements with its neighbors in the eastern Mediterranean, including with Egypt – Turkey is going backwards. An example of this is obtained from a summary of Saudi Arabia’s import data from Turkey compared to those from Egypt last year. Saudi imports from Turkey were 50.6 billion riyals in December, compared to 834 billion riyals in August. On the other hand, Riyadh’s imports from Egypt were 478 billion riyals in August and 735 billion riyals in December. A completely reverse process.

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