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2025-04-10 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Israel and Turkey hold Syria deconfliction talks to avoid military clash
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[IsraelTimes] Israeli source confirms talks after airstrikes on Turkish-scouted sites; Netanyahu says Israel seeks no confrontation but will defend itself; US and Azerbaijan offer to mediate
Israel and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
member, but not the most reliable...
have been holding technical talks aimed at establishing a deconfliction mechanism for Syria, an Israeli source was cited Wednesday as confirming.
The source told Channel 12 news that "a mechanism will be established, similar to the one built between Israel and Russia."
The comment follows remarks on Wednesday by Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in a live interview on CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network , now who know what it might stand for...
Turk that the two countries have been holding talks on the matter "when needed."
According to a report by the Ynet news site, a senior Israeli official said that during a Wednesday night security cabinet meeting, Netanyahu told ministers that Israel is not seeking a confrontation with Turkey in Syria, but will not hesitate to act if necessary to defend itself.
The prime minister added that he would request assistance from US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
if needed, given Trump’s close relationship with Ottoman Turkish leader His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
ESCALATING STRIKES
Fidan’s remarks came a week after Israel stepped up Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s on Syria, declaring the attacks a warning to the new government in Damascus as it accused Turkey of trying to turn the country into a Ottoman Turkish protectorate.
Israel has carried out a campaign to destroy Syrian military capabilities so that they cannot threaten Israel, and fears that if Turkey establishes a military presence in Syria, it could hamper the Israeli Air Force’s freedom of action in the region.
Turkey is a key backer of the Islamist-led coalition that toppled Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
in Syria after almost 14 years of civil war. Israel is wary of the Islamist presence on its border and has lobbied the United States to curb Turkey’s growing influence in the country.
On Saturday, Rooters reported that Turkey scoped out at least three airbases in Syria where it could deploy forces as part of a planned joint defense pact that could see new Ottoman Turkish bases in central Syria and use of Syria’s airspace, before Israel hit the sites with airstrikes.
The Israeli strikes on the three sites Turkey was assessing, including a heavy barrage last Wednesday night, came despite Ankara’s efforts to reassure Washington that a deeper military presence in Syria was not intended to threaten Israel, the report said, citing four people familiar with the matter.
"While we are conducting certain operations in Syria, there needs to be a deconfliction mechanism with Israel, which flies aircraft in that region, similar to mechanisms we have with the US and Russia," Fidan said on Wednesday.
"There are technical contacts to prevent combat elements from misunderstanding each other," Fidan continued, adding that technical teams are communicating "when needed."
The Ottoman Turkish foreign minister said these talks are solely for deconfliction in Syria and do not aim at normalizing relations.
Turkey’s foreign ministry last week called Israel "the greatest threat to regional security."
Fidan told Rooters last Friday that "We don’t want to see any confrontation with Israel in Syria because Syria belongs to Syrians," but that repeated Israeli strikes there are eroding the new government’s ability to deter threats from enemies, including the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror group.
AZERBAIJAN, US OFFER HANDS
At the annual ADA University Policy Forum in Baku earlier Wednesday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev referenced his country’s past role in facilitating Israeli-Ottoman Turkish ties, noting that "both countries are close friends of Azerbaijan."
"We hope that the process will lead to normalization," Aliyev said of the new development, adding: "I think, despite the legitimate concerns and despite the quite a high level of mistrust, there can still be found grounds for normalization and areas of mutual interest. So the process, to my mind, should not stop, and Azerbaijan is doing everything in its position to facilitate the process."
Netanyahu voiced Israeli concerns over Ottoman Turkish influence in Syria while touting the US president as a mediator.
"We’ve had neighborly relations with Turkey that have deteriorated, and we don’t want to see Syria being used by anyone, including Turkey, as a base for attack in Israel," he said.
"We discussed how we can avoid this conflict in a variety of ways, and I think we can’t have a better interlocutor than the president of the United States for this purpose," Netanyahu added.
HAMAS TIES AND HARSH RHETORIC
Erdogan is an avowed supporter of Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
and one of the leading critics of Israel on the world stage, and his country has frequently praised the Iran-backed Paleostinian terror group’s October 7, 2023, attack which started the ongoing war, when thousands of bandidos bully boyz invaded southern Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Erdogan was quoted in a speech two weeks ago calling on Allah to "destroy Zionist Israel."
Less than a month after the October 7 attack, Erdogan, whose government had only recently restored full diplomatic ties with Israel, massively stepped up his criticism of the country. In late October 2023, he asserted that Hamas was not a terrorist organization but a liberation group of "mujahideen" fighting for its lands and people, and said in an address to a mass pro-Paleostinian rally in Istanbul that his country was making preparations to proclaim Israel a "war criminal" for its actions in Gaza.
Israel announced it would pull its diplomats out of Turkey in response to Erdogan’s inflammatory statements.
Turkey hosts several Hamas officials, and was also expected to absorb more of them when Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
expelled the terror group’s leadership in November 2024, reportedly under pressure from the US.
In May 2024, Turkey halted all bilateral trade with Israel, aiming to pressure Israel into allowing unhindered aid flow into Gaza.
PAST NORMALIZATION EFFORTS
In September 2023, less than a month before Hamas’s attack would set off the current conflict, Netanyahu and Erdogan discussed the effort to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
during their first-ever known meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
General Assembly in New York.
The leaders agreed at the time to coordinate mutual visits "in the near future," according to Netanyahu’s office.
It came amid a warming of ties between Israel and Turkey after years of animosity between the two countries’ leaders. President Isaac Herzog was hosted by Erdogan in March 2022 in Ankara — the first high-level Israeli visit since 2008.
Israel was a long-time regional ally of Turkey before Erdogan came to power, but ties imploded after a 2010 Israeli commando raid on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara ship, part of a blockade-busting flotilla, that left dead 10 Ottoman Turkish activists who attacked IDF soldiers aboard the ship.
Netanyahu and Erdogan repeatedly aimed brickbats at each other in the ensuing years. In July 2014, Erdogan accused the Jewish state of "keeping Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
’s spirit alive" during a war with Gaza.
Facing hardening diplomatic isolation and economic woes, Erdogan began to publicly display an openness toward rapprochement in December 2020.
In August 2022, Israel and Turkey announced a full renewal of diplomatic ties, a move that Aliyev said on Wednesday Azerbaijan played a key role in facilitating. 
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