{"id":27586,"date":"2010-12-02T02:04:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=27586"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:51:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:51:05","slug":"israelis-allege-turkey-allowed-arms-into-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/02\/israelis-allege-turkey-allowed-arms-into-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Israelis allege Turkey allowed arms into Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8211; H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. AP photo<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/israelis-claim-turks-allow-materials-for-iran8217s-nuke-program-2010-11-30_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/israelis-claim-turks-allow-materials-for-iran8217s-nuke-program-2010-11-30_l.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/israelis-claim-turks-allow-materials-for-iran8217s-nuke-program-2010-11-30_l-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Israeli participants in an October 2009 meeting claimed Turks had allowed weapons-related material for Iran\u2019s nuclear program to transit Turkey, according to one of the diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<p>The materials were allowed through Turkey \u201cwith Prime Minister [Recep Tayyip] Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s full knowledge,\u201d wrote Frederic Bereyziat, a senior French Foreign Ministry official for Israel and the peace process, who took notes on the second annual Franco-Israeli Strategic Dialogue in October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>According to the leaked cable, the French replied that Israel would need to have clear and concrete proof of such activity before leveling accusations against Turkey. The Israelis replied that they were collecting evidence that they would eventually publicize.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cfive to six hours\u201d of talks between delegations led by Pierre Sellal, director-general of the French Foreign Ministry, and Yossi Gal, director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, covered a wide range of issues, including the Middle East peace process, Turkey, Syria and Iran, according to Bereyziat.<\/p>\n<p>The French official said the Israelis explained that they would not take strong public positions condemning what they perceived as Turkey\u2019s recent \u201cstrategic shift away from Western positions on the peace process, Iran and Israel\u2019s nuclear program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan\u2019s public comments about Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons had particularly irked the Israelis, Bereyziat said, describing the prime minister\u2019s remarks as unprecedented by a Turkish leader.<\/p>\n<p>The Israelis moreover blamed the Europeans, and especially France, for the shift in Turkey\u2019s policy, saying that if Europe had more warmly embraced Turkey, the Turks would not be taking steps to earn approval in the Arab and Muslim world at the expense of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to this accusation, the French, \u201cbegged to differ,\u201d Bereyziat noted as a follow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8211; H\u00fcrriyet Daily News Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan. AP photo Israeli participants in an October 2009 meeting claimed Turks had allowed weapons-related material for Iran\u2019s nuclear program to transit Turkey, according to one of the diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks. The materials were allowed through Turkey \u201cwith Prime Minister [Recep Tayyip] Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":27590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}