Turkey lifts veto on Israel’s NATO activities despite frictions – report

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Published: 23 December, 2012, 22:51

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen shake hands as they deliver a joint statement after their meeting on February 09, 2011 in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo / Uriel Sinai)

Turkey reportedly agrees to Israeli participation in NATO activities despite tension. The Jerusalem Post quotes sources who say Ankara made the concession to get NATO Patriot missiles on its border with Syria.

Israel is to join a 2013 NATO military drill in Turkey in spite of the unresolved diplomatic conflict between the two states, the Israeli newspaper says Sunday.

The timing of the decision is not a coincidence, an Israeli military official tells the Jerusalem Post on condition of anonymity.

“At the last minute – and I think it was dependent on the Patriots – it was approved,” the source explains, referring to Turkey’s request to position the defensive missile batteries along its border with Syria.

However, there has been no “total solution” of the standoff between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the Israeli official adds.

Ankara had vetoed Israel’s participation in NATO exercises, as well as its presence at a NATO summit back in May in protest at the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid by Israeli commandos, in which nine Turkish activists were killed.

Turkish-Israeli relations further deteriorated after the 2011 UN report justifying the Mavi Marmara marine assault, which resulted in Turkey expelling the Israeli ambassador and suspending military cooperation.

Turkey has also pledged to block any Israeli participation in NATO activities until there’s a formal apology from Tel Aviv. So far Israel has refused to apologize for the incident despite the demands.

But Israel is also seeking to expand its cooperation with NATO, and recognizes its ascent in the organization would be blocked unless the break with Turkey is resolved, NATO officials have said.

“We would like the issue to be resolved sooner rather than later,” a NATO official tells Jerusalem Post, adding that NATO is trying to find ways to keep the dialogue going between the two countries.

NATO’s chief Rasmussen proposed to revitalize the countries’ relations at a December meeting of the alliance, AFP reported citing a diplomatic source.

However there are few signs of either side conceding ground, with an unnamed Turkish diplomatic source stating that “Turkey’s position has not changed on this matter.”

According to the diplomat cited by AFP, Turkey will continue to block joint military maneuvers and ban Israel’s activity in its own borders.

Turkey lifts veto on Israel

 

[T-Bortecine]

False - RT

 

[idune]

Real face of Turkish govt is coming out. Did Patriot deployment make Turkey any more safer? By no means Turkey just digging deeper hole in the region impact from which will be felt in generation to come.

 

[Pakistanisage]

At some point Turkey may reconsider its membership in NATO as it has outlived its usefulness and utility. It is time for /Turkey to join hands with Pakistan and Iran to develop their own weapons with help form Russia and China.

 

[PteX]

At some point Turkey may reconsider its membership in NATO as it has outlived its usefulness and utility. It is time for /Turkey to join hands with Pakistan and Iran to develop their own weapons with help form Russia and China.

What would Russia or China gain from this new alliance? Jihadists? Russia and China, especially China, would never sacrifice their economic ties with the US for any single nation. Turkey is, was and will be in NATO because they have a bitter history with both Russia and China, and even today their relations are rarely not strained.

 

[T-Bortecine]

What would Russia or China gain from this new alliance? Jihadists? Russia and China, especially China, would never sacrifice their economic ties with the US for any single nation. Turkey is, was and will be in NATO because they have a bitter history with both Russia and China, and even today their relations are rarely not strained.

Who is Jihadists?

first the relations with china is not rarely not strained but rarely strained and that was with Uyghur problem other than that its normal. The main problem with russia is azerbaycan/armenia problem other than that relations are fine with $35 billion trade between countries. Putin invited us to Shangai cooperation to PM on visit.

 

[PteX]

Pakistan, Iran and even Turkey has their own share of Salafists. Especially now that Turkey is going through Islamization.
How many wars did Russia and Turkey fought? Whatever might happen between the Russians and the Americans will always first happen in Turkey.
Just a recent example would be the Cyprus Missile Crisis.

"Russia initially avoided direct confrontation with Turkey, but insisted repeatedly that the sale of S-300s to Cyprus would proceed without interference. Turkey consequently looked to her strategic NATO partners, including the United States for reassurances that she would not be prevented from acting against the perceived threat, should the need arise. Evidently, these reassurances did not come, and Turkey instead turned to neighbouring Israel for weapons and training to deal with the S-300s directly."

As for China: China will continue to destroy the Turkic Uyghur separatists, with or without Turkey's blessings. So that will always be a thorn in your side, unless you accept them as a necessary sacrifice for the relationship.

 

[T-Bortecine]

Pakistan, Iran and even Turkey has their own share of Salafists. Especially now that Turkey is going through Islamization.
How many wars did Russia and Turkey fought? Whatever might happen between the Russians and the Americans will always first happen in Turkey.
Just a recent example would be the Cyprus Missile Crisis.

"Russia initially avoided direct confrontation with Turkey, but insisted repeatedly that the sale of S-300s to Cyprus would proceed without interference. Turkey consequently looked to her strategic NATO partners, including the United States for reassurances that she would not be prevented from acting against the perceived threat, should the need arise. Evidently, these reassurances did not come, and Turkey instead turned to neighbouring Israel for weapons and training to deal with the S-300s directly."

As for China: China will continue to destroy the Turkic Uyghur separatists, with or without Turkey's blessings. So that will always be a thorn in your side, unless you accept them as a necessary sacrifice for the relationship.

in that crisi we went on to even risk a conflict with Russia+Greece+Cyprus by ourselves and because as far as i know from reading somwhere afterwards because our pilots never had experience against s300 or russian anti air and israel did we done training against it.

as for china , they aint destroying anybody because it will destroy themselves , i dont know who the uyghur seperatists are. We support rights againt uyghur brothers and china knows that very well and many chinese i seen also.

so we have salafis and what about your part ? what about them jewish people swearing at even christians , videos on youtube they harrasing people in israel what are they?

 

[KingMamba]

At some point Turkey may reconsider its membership in NATO as it has outlived its usefulness and utility. It is time for /Turkey to join hands with Pakistan and Iran to develop their own weapons with help form Russia and China.

Pakistanis need to wake up, China will only help Pakistan as long it benefits them to do so. The day the Chinese no longer need Pakistan to keep the Indian forces on their Western Borders is the day the "friendship" will end. Besides neither Russia or China would like such an alliance anyway.

 

[T-Bortecine]

Pakistanis need to wake up, China will only help Pakistan as long it benefits them to do so. The day the Chinese no longer need Pakistan to keep the Indian forces on their Western Borders is the day the "friendship" will end. Besides neither Russia or China would like such an alliance anyway.

Yes i agree with you , because the normal person in china has no feelings towards pakistan only government to benefit themselves, however Pakistan has some choices to make. The best would be to try to keep it calm with other countries for now , continue like this get a proper government and build your economy , just keep building focus when the money comes everything will improve. Also pakistan gaining valuable experience from aircraft afaik from jf17 etc

 

[PteX]

in that crisi we went on to even risk a conflict with Russia+Greece+Cyprus by ourselves and because as far as i know from reading somwhere afterwards because our pilots never had experience against s300 or russian anti air and israel did we done training against it.

as for china , they aint destroying anybody because it will destroy themselves , i dont know who the uyghur seperatists are. We support rights againt uyghur brothers and china knows that very well and many chinese i seen also.

so we have salafis and what about your part ? what about them jewish people swearing at even christians , videos on youtube they harrasing people in israel what are they?

Salafist Turks murdered a lot of innocent Turks. It is a very big problem, as they were all riding on the Marmara and we know too well what happened there.
As for the crisis, Israel helped your country when no one else would. The Turks forgot about that and many other things rather quickly after "Allahuakbar" was chanted right after "Death to Israel".

 

[KingMamba]

Yes i agree with you , because the normal person in china has no feelings towards pakistan only government to benefit themselves, however Pakistan has some choices to make. The best would be to try to keep it calm with other countries for now , continue like this get a proper government and build your economy , just keep building focus when the money comes everything will improve. Also pakistan gaining valuable experience from aircraft afaik from jf17 etc

Yeah, Pakistan should do a bunch of things but I won't list them here because this thread is about Turkey.

False - RT

Is it really fake?? I hope so, Turkey should not compromise on its stance.

 

[T-Bortecine]

Salafist Turks murdered a lot of innocent Turks. It is a very big problem, as they were all riding on the Marmara and we know too well what happened there.
As for the crisis, Israel helped your country when no one else would. The Turks forgot about that and many other things rather quickly after "Allahuakbar" was chanted right after "Death to Israel".

Israel never helped us there and they wouldnt militarily maybe political support maximum.Whos salafist Turks and who did they murder?

Yeah, Pakistan should do a bunch of things but I won't list them here because this thread is about Turkey.



Is it really fake?? I hope so, Turkey should not compromise on its stance.

fake trust me , not even one news on any turkish news , if it was true theyll be so many by now.

 

[PteX]

Israel never helped us there and they wouldnt militarily maybe political support maximum.Whos salafist Turks and who did they murder?



fake trust me , not even one news on any turkish news , if it was true theyll be so many by now.

Israel has helped Turkey militarily more than once. Where did Turkey turn to, exactly, when they needed military equipment of the highest creed or training and know-how on how to deal with S-300's?

Sivas massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here, Salafists Turks. Once a minority in Turkey, now ruling government.

P.S
Turkey lifts NATO veto over Israel

 

[Syrian Lion]

I let these pictures speak...

So i dont understand why is Turkey "upset".....