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Sunday, February 19, 2012

NATO’s missile shield, Turkey and Israel

Ahmet DavutoğluIt’s not just Israeli participation in Mediterranean naval exercises that was not raised by NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during talks Feb. 17, but any military exercise with NATO, too.

Turkey has put a veto on all NATO cooperation with Israel since the Mavi Marmara flotilla tragedy in May 2010.

The recent reports about ongoing NATO consideration of the Israeli request is because of a misleading question to a NATO spokesperson on the general procedure.

NATO officials did not even ask Turks about any Israeli cooperation since they know the answer.

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