Israel–Turkey relations

Energy cooperation has been a major force driving Turkish-Israeli reconciliation.

Israel's Leviathan gas field, the country's largest natural gas reservoir, was discovered in 2010 and is believed to hold 621 billion cubic meters of gas.

If a deal is concluded, an estimated 10 billion cubic meters of gas will be exported to Turkey each year.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has extended his condolences over the assassination of Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov, adding that Ankara and Moscow agree that the killing was an attempt of provocation against mutual ties. 

The wave of terror attacks in Turkey are not separate from what is happening in Syria and Iraq, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Dec.17. 

Turkey's new ambassador to Israel, Kemal Ökem, submitted his credentials to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Dec. 12, marking the inauguration of a Turkish envoy to the country for the first time in six years.
 

A court in Istanbul on Dec.

The Turkish government has expressed concern over Israel's plans to establish a new settlement project on occupied Palestinian territories, in a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry late on Dec. 8. 

The statement recalled a bill currently being discussed in the Knesset that will permit the creation of new settlements of 4,000 homes to be built on Palestinian territories. 

Turkey's new ambassador to Israel, Mustafa Kemal Ökem, has officially been appointed to mission after his name appeared in the government's Official Gazette on Dec. 7. 

The foreign ministry had officially announced Ökem's appointment to the post on Nov. 30. 

Israeli Ambassador to Turkey Eitan Na'eh has presented his credentials to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to officially begin his tenure in Ankara, after six years of low-level diplomatic representation due to the Mavi Marmara crisis of 2010. 

Turkish Ambassador to Israel Kemal Öke will begin his work in Tel Aviv on Dec. 12.

The prosecutor in the Mavi Marmara case demanded its dismissal on Dec. 2, citing a reconciliation deal signed between Turkey and Israel, one day after Israel's new ambassador to Ankara, Eitan Na'eh, arrived in the Turkish capital to take up his post.

The prosecutor in the Mavi Marmara case demanded its dismissal on Dec. 2, citing a reconciliation deal signed between Turkey and Israel, one day after Israel's new ambassador to Ankara, Eitan Na'eh, arrived in the Turkish capital to take up his post.