Turkey and Israel's relationship in the Middle East

Mediterranean Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 60-90

  Walker, Joshua ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POST-COLD WAR; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; TURKEY;

EID: 33751412885     PISSN: 10474552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10474552-2006-024     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Amikam Nachmani, Israel, Turkey, and Greece: Uneasy Relations in the East Mediterranean (London: Frank Cass, 1987), 45-6.
2. The case of Cyprus offers an interesting exception to this general trend and is addressed in detail in William Hale, Foreign Policy, 1774-2000 (London: Frank Cass Press, 2000).
3. Joseph Codispoti, "Star and Crescent: Turco-Israeli Partnership in a Tough Neighborhood," Air War College Maxwell Paper, no. 22, August 2000.
4. For more on this, see Michael Oren, The Origins of the Second Arab-Israeli War (London: Frank Cass, 1992).
5. Ibid., 66.
6. British Foreign Office papers, cited in ibid., 163.
7. Oren, 67.
8. Ibid., 71.
9. For more on this see Efraim Karsh's chapter "Israel" in the Cold War and the Middle East, ed. Yezid Sayigh and Avi Shlaim (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
10. Oren, 75.
11. Hale, 271.
12. Ofra Bengio, The Turkish-Israeli Relationship (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 37.
13. In addition to Bengio's work, Avi Shalaim's seminal work The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000) provides evidence from various Israeli sources and interviews with US embassy officials in Tel Aviv.
14. Bengio, 38.
15. See article written by Cevik Bir, former deputy chief of staff for the Turkish armed forces, and Martin Sherman, "Formula for Stability Turkey Plus Israel," Middle East Quarterly (fall 2002).
16. See Bengio for an in-depth discussion of these issues and a particularly well-articulated Israeli perspective on the Cold War years.
17. For an interesting discussion of the relationship between the Cyprus issue and Turkish-Israeli relations, see Nachmani, Israel, Turkey and Greece.
18. See Efraim Inbar, "The Resilience of Israeli-Turkish Relations," Israel Affairs 11, no. 4 (October 2005).
19. For more on this see Efraim Inbar, The Israeli-Turkish Strategic Partnership (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2003).
20. Inbar, "The Resilience of Israeli-Turkish Relations."
21. Anat Lewin, "Turkey and Israel: Reciprocal and Mutual Imagery in the Media, 1994-1999," Journal of International Affairs 54 (fall 2000): 245.
22. This particular phrase was coined by An Makovsky, but various other commentators such as Yucel Bozdaglioglu have used similar concepts from which this passage is paraphrased.
23. Yucel Bozdaglioglu, Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish Identity (New York: Routledge, 2003), 153.
24. Ibid.
25. For more on Turkish foreign policy toward Israel see Meliha Altunisik, "Turkish Policy toward Israel," in Turkey's New World, ed. Alan Makovsky and Sabri Sayari (Washingyon, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy Press, 2000).
26. Bengio, 79.
27. Ibid., 80.
28. Ibid.
29. Philip Robins, Suits and Uniforms (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003), 130.
30. Erik Knudsen, "Syria, Turkey and the Changing Power Configuration in the Middle East: An Analysis of Political, Economic, and Regional Differences," in Turkey's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century (London: Ashgate, 2003), 207.
31. See Amikam Nachmani, Turkey: Facing a New Millenium (New York: Manchester University Press, 2003).
32. See Daniel Pipes, "A New Axis: The Emerging Turkish-Israeli Entente," National Interest (winter 1997/1998).
33. Hale, 329.
34. Efraim Inbar, "Regional Implications of the Israeli-Turkish Strategic Partnership," Turkish Studies 3, no. 2 (2002): 40.
35. Knudsen, 213.
36. This has most recently been evidenced by the various Israeli partie's approaches to Turkey, which all include sections on the importance of maintaining close and strategic ties with turkey. For further information on this see Inbar, The Israeli-Turkish Strategic Partnership.
37. "Syrian President: Common Interests Of Turkey And Syria Can Turn Into A Significant Brotherhood," Turkish Press, 3 March 2004, www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=18083, accessed 18 February 2005.
38. For more on this see Joshua Walker, "Turkey's Role in the Middle East," International Affairs Review 14, no. 1 (2005): 119-36.
39. For more on this concept, se Ahmet Davutoglu, Strategic Depth (Turkish) (Istanbul: Yayin'ori, 2002).
40. Alvin Powell, "Erdogan Calls for Cooperation," Harvard Gazette, 5 February 2004, www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/02.05/ 03-turkey.html, accessed 18 February 2005.
41. Huseyin Bagci, "Turkey Plays Greater Role in Middle East Than Many Think," World Security Network News Letter, February 2002.
42. "Hamas Visit May Spark New Crisis in Ties with Israel," Turkish Daily News, 17 February 2006.
43. "Erdogan: No Retreat," Turkish Daily News, 22 February 2006.