Prime Minister Naftali Bennet plans today (November 18) to negotiate with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the background of the liberation of the Israeli couple, detained in Istanbul last week.
Israeli media write that Prime Minister Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and President Itzhak Duke Thanked Erdogan for his participation in the liberation of spouses. Source “Haarez” argues that Jerusalem will answer Ankara friendly gesture.
The media notes that if the conversation between Bennet and Erdogan really will take place, it will be the first public communication between the President of Turkey and the Israeli Prime Minister for the last nine years. In 2013, Benjamin Netanyahu talked to Erdogan, who was engaged in the post of Prime Minister of Turkey, during the visit of US President Barack Obama to Israel. Then Netanyahu apologized for the death of Turkish citizens who participated in the flotilla in Gaza in 2010, which led to a deterioration in relations between the two countries. In July last year, Erdogan held a conversation with the President of the Duke a few days after his entry into office.
Israeli crowd of Natalie and Mordini Okinn was liberated from custody last night and returned home in the morning. In Israel, it is believed that the arrest of spouses was caused by the real suspicions of Turkey in the fact that they collected confidential information.