ANKARA (HRNW) – Israel and Turkey proclaimed a new era in relations on Wednesday following more than a decade of diplomatic rupture, as Israeli President Isaac Herzog made a landmark visit to Ankara.
Herzog s Turkey trip, which included talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was the first by an Israeli president since 2007, when the late Shimon Peres addressed the Turkish parliament.
Ties then plummeted, but Erdogan, standing alongside the Israeli president, proclaimed that Herzog s “historic visit will be a turning point in our relations.”
“Our mutual goal is to revive dialogue based on respect,” added Erdogan, who is a vocal champion of the Palestinian cause.
Herzog, who holds a traditionally ceremonial position but has taken on an outsized diplomatic role since his July inauguration, conceded that Israel-Turkey ties “underwent a drought.”
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