Israel and Turkey agree bilateral ties back on track

Turkey needs to stop oppressing, jailing, and killing Kurds. They need to focus on their own peace process before trying to get involved in those of others!

I believe that Turkey should cut all ties with the Zionist entity and declare that we don't recognize such a state.

Israel does not needlessly murder Palestinian civilians. Israel would rather live in peace with their Arabs. They offered peace many times. Jordan accepted it. Egypt received the Sinai for peace. Israel accepted the Clinton peace plan Arafat rejected. When a nation is under rocket attacks daily, children killed such as Dorit Benisian and Yuval Abebeh under Hamas rockets, there comes a time to put an end to this. Turkish military does the same against the PKK. The only difference between the PKK and the Arab terrorists is that PKK hides in isolated mountains while Hamas hides in populated areas. If the Turkish military is justified in its war against PKK so is the IDF in its defensive fight against the Hamas Terrorists. As for religious tolerance of Turkey, Remember the Varlik Vergisi, 20 Kura military service, September 6-7 incidents, The Kirlareli pogroms in 1936. You owe me millions for the property confiscated from my family during Varlik Vergisi.

is acceptable ? turkey has problems with a non muslim state called israel and to pretend otherwise is not acceptable !

I'd trust a snake more than turkey. At least you know it's a snake.

But Natalie, sweetheart, Israel will always have your love and affection, yes?

Well, this happened after Gul met Obama this week. So much for (in)dependence of Turkey.They must be proud. Now we know who pulls the strings.

in our relations with turkey.the present government feels it can bully us at will.we do not want to be impolite to them.we had better keep our distance.

While it is true that the history of Turkey involves assistance to the jewish people ,it is untrue to state your history is not without its intense periods of radicalism and coups which went so far as to have to compel your military to put them down. Currently, your government does bear many hallmarks of islamists as it becomes even more clear by the bedfellows Mr Gul and Mr Erdogan keep. Second, israel has done a GREAT deal toward with peace with its neighbors , once THEY finally decided their goal would no longer be the attempted destruction of Israel. Case in pooint , both Egypt and Jordan. Moreover, the history of this region in israel traces back far longer to "palestinian" muslim hatred and attacks on jews well before any "occupation" even existed and even before israel was even a state. The palestinian problems have always been predominantly of their own making with a series of awful choices made by them starting with a refusal of the partition plan in 47/48, no return

what has happened with turkey has changed everything.there is no going back.turkey has shown us a deeply unfriendly face and that cannot be undone. i do not blame the turkish government at all.the people are not in favour of friendly nations with israel.so what of the future? forget the alliance of non arab muslim nation on the periphery.our relations are fragile.

Turkey in order to save some money on barrels of oil has squandered it's relationship with Israel. Let Turkey be friends with Syria and Iran.

We seem to acting like the abusedspouse in a bad relationship. During the Gaza War, Turkey acted like a violent abusive spouse. Spewing unforgiveable and downright hate filled commentary. Maybe we were seeing this country and its leadership for what they actually are? While they feel free to crush Kurdish opposition with violence, they have the audacity to criticize Israel's dealings with the Pals. As Turkish forces sped across the Iraqi-turkish border to wipe out and mop up Kurdish forces, they again without shame pointed fingers at Israel for its war with Gaza. Now that they have returned home, still hungover from their drunken fit of rage, they are begging to make this realtionship happen again. Peres should be weary of this baboon, remembering that an abuser will abuse again.

America has put pressure upon Turkey to be friendly with Israel. Turkey will do this to a certain point. Israel is bound to cross that point many times in the future, just as they did during the Gaza op. In the same way, America pays Jordan and Egypt an annual allowance to be friendly with Israel. That only works to a certain point as well. Israel is like the most hated kid on the block. When having a birthday party, the parents must bribe, coerce, or beg in order to get other kids to attend. Lately, even America has gotten tired of Israels behavior. When Americas friendship fades, there will be nobody left to tolerate Israel.

The suggestion that Turkey may be headed in the direction of islamic fundamentalism is misinformed and unfounded in truth! The Turkish tradition of religious tolerance was what allowed the Turks to help out Jewish friends throughout history. As for getting things back on an even keel contrary to what you suggest it is Israel; a nation with half the population of Istanbul who has to do more than Turkey; a major entity of 75 million. Is real will have to prefer to be in peace with its neighbours as the status quo of needlessly murdering Palestinian civilians is unacceptable!

You cannot trust a government whose leaders have endorsed a radical political shift to embrace the likes of Ahmadinrjad, the Holocaust denier who is planing his own version of the genocide, & his murderous proxy Mashaal. If Israel finds some political advantage in keeping relations as good as possible with Turkey, the recent anti-Israel pronouncements of its top leaders make sure that militarily there will be only obstacles in their intentions & deeds.

... is Turkey, and may it be an open and welcoming one for Israel. I hope both sides stop villifying the other, and resume a positive relationship. Both these nations need all the friends they can get, and particularly need each other. MV

It is welcomed that Israel and Turkey have resumed normal relations.

Turks openly support terrorist state iran, and call ahmadinajad brother,calling IDF killers,turkish state TV and media opemly promote Anti-Semitism and islamo-fashist ideas with the support of the people and the government and the politicians want to "restore ties" with the turks.This is absurd.

The Spider wanted to cross the river and asked The Frog for a ride. Guess what happened. Conclusion: do not trust the Spider. Nor Gul.

Couldnt agree with you more. Erdogan and his Ilk are a pox on Turkish society.

I guess Israel didn't commit genocide in Gaza, after all, as loony tune in chief Erdogan first accused Israel of doing.

Any friend you can find, grab quickly! Ps-Hold the ones you have closely and gently.

turkey and egypt and jordan have been spitting into israels face for the last few years,and what does israel do? it crawls on all fours and licks their boots and begs their tormentors oh please my master please please love me. What a pathetic degrading scene this is. a drunken whino passed out on a tel aviv gutter, has more self respect than our so called leaders

He is the source of Turkey's declining status in the eyes of Israel, the US and NATO.

or organize terror attacks if they do not normalize the ties.

to tell them again that they are terrorists and murderers including you israel. and the european beast.

make up about . By all means have relations with Turkey but much more than that -I dont think! They are on a fundamentalist pathway -in time they will be a second Iran.

It is suspected that last week's attack, in which 26 people were killed, was perpetrated by a Chechen-Muslim terrorist organization. ---------------------------------------- i doubt that so much. that "chechenmuslim terrorist organization".

Turkey has shown its' true face in the past year. there is no question that Turkey is heading to a more fundamentalist government and the secular Army is not the boss and calling the shots anymore. The basic and intrinsic factors that make up the government are today governed by religously motivated people and the trend is growing. Israel while should strive to maintain normal relations with Turkey , should not be running after Turkey. Turkey should be pursuing peace and positive relationship with Israel. It will take a lot to persuade Israel that Turkey is not heading to a fundementalistic state. Mediation should certainly be a subject on the agenda.