ISTANBUL (JTA) – Despite months of deteriorating relations and increasingly hostile rhetoric, the complete shutdown of trade between Turkey and Israel earlier this month came as a shock to many.
Turkey could restart trade with Israel "if peace is permanent", Nail Olpak, head of the Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK), said on Tuesday.
Nevertheless, Turkish support need not result in a confrontation, much less an actual conflict with Israel — Israeli media headlines about war with Turkey notwithstanding. The term that the ...