We know that during the last decade, new ways of Turkish diplomacy often used terminology referring to events that are open. So two years ago, the process vying for the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations was called "football diplomacy". Besides the nod to the famous "ping pong diplomacy" which was seen in the early 1970s, U.S. and Chinese officials resume, following an unprecedented meeting of table tennis players of their countries, there was an allusion voyages made by the Turkish and Armenian Presidents to attend the playoff games of the FIFA World Cup, pitting their respective teams. There is a little over ten years, moreover, the occurrence of earthquakes a few months apart, Greece and Turkey, had caused a movement of mutual aid, which had facilitated in the process, a renewal of relations between Athens and Ankara, called "earthquake diplomacy".
After a huge fire in the area of Haifa, Israel, last week, Turkey has decided to dispatch on the spot two Canadair aircraft, despite the serious dispute that pitted him against the Jewish state since the arrest of the "Mavi Marmara, which had ended on 31 May, the deaths of nine Turkish humanitarian activists. This humanitarian initiative, if successful, will it enrich the vocabulary of Turkish diplomatic imaged a new concept?
We incline to think in certain respects, especially when you know that Benjamin Netanyahu personally called his Turkish counterpart, December 3, to thank him and offer him a revival of talks between the two countries. Indeed, this suggestion has not remained a dead letter, since contacts have taken place in Geneva, two days later, between the Deputy Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Feridun Sinirlioğlu, and the Israeli representative in the Commssion UN investigating the case of the fleet, Yosef Ciechanover, the confidential meeting would aim to get back on the job developing a text apology validated by both countries. The fact that it was prompted by the heads of government in person, leading some observers to the optimist. But others felt that the immediate disclosure of a meeting which was initially kept secret, was proof that the hardline Israeli government, especially Foreign Minister right-wing Avigdor Lieberman working to defeat any attempt at reconciliation. It is true that the Netanyahu government's internal divisions have often embarrassed previously Reconciliation efforts between the two countries.
Another event came to temper the optimism of what is already being called the "fire diplomacy", a term is somewhat unfortunate that we prefer diplomacy Canadair ": These are statements made by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Sunday, Sivas, in which he recalled that the conditions for a normalization of Turkish-Israeli relations had not changed, and they implied that Israel apologizes to Turkey and compensate victims. But above all, explaining that helping his country to Israel was dictated by "a humanitarian and Islamic duty," the Prime Minister said very little in terms of diplomacy, we should not expect to see the Turkish position change, "as the blood flowed in the Mediterranean has not been cleaned. "
be argued that these words, more than a statement of foreign policy, are probably a message of domestic policy for a portion of the electorate of the AKP done to cut the grass under the feet of Islamist Saadet Partisi. The old leader of the latter, Necmettin Erbakan, in no way delay to react, claiming loudly, in an interview with Zaman on Monday, the AKP was actually an accomplice of Israel, and not hesitating to deal Erdoğan "hypocritical." It is not clear, however, that the Israelis take for granted the accusations of the founding father of political Islam in Turkey and enjoy the rhetoric of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And this, especially when we know that Wikileaks leaks just revealed that the Israeli ambassador in Ankara told the Americans that the main problem of Turkish-Israeli relations would be the Prime Minister Turkish person. This will require more than two for the Canadair we can glimpse the spring that we need the Turkish-Israeli relations.
JM
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