Monday, April 22, 2013

Turkey refutes Sunday Times report, ruling out military cooperation with Israel

Ankara has dismissed a news report suggesting that an Israeli delegation set to arrive in Ankara on April 22 would hold talks to use a Turkish airbase to train for a possible attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

“The report seems to have explained a hypothesis,” a Turkish official told the Hürriyet Daily News on April 21 concerning The Sunday Times report published on the same day.

“We have already said that the normalization of our relations will be step by step. Talking about the prospects of a military cooperation at this stage would be irrelevant. We are not there yet. We haven’t even yet appointed a new ambassador to Israel,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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