Following the recent release of the Turkish edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, here’s my interview with the newspaper, Arti Gercek:
The relationship between Turkey and Israel has long been dysfunctional. From time to time, it was seen that being friends and supporting each other was mutually beneficial. Israel often had a large number of intelligence presences in Istanbul. Turkey also often gave intelligence to Israel to protect Israeli citizens who are on vacation or working in their own country. There was also an arms relationship between the two countries. There has been an interaction between both countries for the Kurds. In fact, this interaction is an interesting form of relationship, because on the one hand Israel has often supported elements of the general Kurdish struggle, especially in the last decade. But it also supported Turkey’s actions against the Kurds. Therefore, I think that the Israel-Turkey relationship is dysfunctional, but it is similar to many other dysfunctional relations that Israel has.
Read the whole interview: Antony Loewenstein: İsrail’in silah satarken hiçbir kırmızı çizgisi yok