An Israeli minister gave an interview to a Saudi online newspaper over the weekend, underscoring the warming ties between Israel and the Arab world in the wake of the Iranian nuclear deal last year. Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption Ze’ev Elkin told a reporter from the Saudi website Elaph that Israel and the...

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Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas terrorist who manages the group’s operations in the West Bank, was reportedly expelled from Turkey under pressure from the United States and Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. According to the Post, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and Hamas leader Khaled...

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Israel and Turkey have reached an agreement to restore diplomatic ties, ending five years of strained relations, Ha’aretz reported Thursday. The understanding was reached in Zurich, Switerzland by Joseph Ciechanover, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal envoy to Turkey; Israeli National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen; and Turkish Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu. The crisis in...

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Amid fraying ties with Russia and Iraq, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that a “normalization process” between his country and Israel would benefit the entire region, The Daily Sabbah, a Turkish newspaper, reported on Monday. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking to journalists during his trip back from the Neutrality Conference...

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Turkey’s Islamist party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), lost its thirteen-year parliamentary majority on Sunday, negating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s efforts to consolidate his power by altering the constitution to increase the authority of the presidency. While receiving 41% of the vote, more than any other party, the AKP will not have...

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In national elections, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) headed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suffered its first electoral defeat since coming to power in 2002, Agence France-Presse reported Sunday. The result has scuttled Erdogan’s plan to push through the constitutional changes he yearns for to create a presidential system...

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The terms of the emerging nuclear deal with Iran is causing so much concern in Saudi Arabia that influential advisors in the kingdom are growing increasingly vocal about their desire to create a nuclear deterrent of their own, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. While Saudi Arabia has long advocated...

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Citing the current “fecklessness” of American policy towards Syria, which has led to the defection of moderate rebels to extremist factions and the growing military assertiveness of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, a staff editorial in The Washington Post called for an American-protected safe zone to allow moderate opposition leaders and...

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin spoke out strongly on the question of the Armenian genocide in a closed session with journalists held last week in Jerusalem in honor of Israel Independence Day. The comments, made in response to a question posed by The Tower and cleared for publication today, will do...

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently visiting Iran, a visit which comes amid disagreements between Ankara and Tehran over Erdogan’s policies regarding Syria and Yemen. This is Erdogan’s first visit to Iran for more than four years, and it takes place in a period of unprecedented tension between the...

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