Jewish Link – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced today that he will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories accompanied by the Turkish Energy Minister in mid-May, following talks on energy cooperation between the two countries, reported Haaretz.
Cavusoglu indicated that during his visit he will discuss the appointment of ambassadors from the respective countries with his counterpart Yair Lapid.
Turkey expelled Israel’s ambassador to Ankara and withdrew its envoy in response to the killing of 61 Palestinians during Gaza border protests in 2018.
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The foreign minister estimated that the Turkey-Israel gas pipeline project would not be possible in the short term, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett discussed the issue, according to reports last month.
The talks center on a possible plan to transport Israeli natural gas to Europe.
Last week, Erdogan said that Naftali Bennett might visit Turkey in the coming months, although an Israeli source reported that there are no concrete plans for the visit at this time.
Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog traveled to Turkey in early March. Erdogan said before the visit that the meeting would be a turning point in relations between regional powers, which have been tense for a long time, and that Ankara is willing to cooperate in the energy sector.
In recent months, the president has promoted rapprochement with Israel, in the context of a serious economic crisis in Turkey and Erdogan’s simultaneous efforts to improve diplomatic ties with other countries in the region, especially with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Joined.
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