{"id":69912,"date":"2013-04-24T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69912"},"modified":"2024-06-22T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T11:25:07","slug":"turkey-denies-talking-with-israel-about-iran-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/24\/turkey-denies-talking-with-israel-about-iran-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Denies Talking with Israel About Iran Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkey dismisses report suggesting that an Israeli delegation would hold talks about using a Turkish airbase to train for a attack in Iran.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Turkey dismissed on Sunday evening a news report suggesting that an Israeli delegation set to arrive in Ankara on Monday would hold talksabout Israel using a Turkish airbaseto train for a possible attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

The report, which appeared in theSunday Times<\/em>, said that NationalSecurity Council\u00a0chairman Yaakov Amidror would offer missiles and advanced technology to Turkey in exchange for Ankara\u2019s allowing the Israeli Air Force to use a base located approximately\u00a0 1,000 miles from the border with Iran.<\/p>\n

However, a Turkish official denied the report, telling the Turkish daily\u00a0Hurriyet<\/em>, \u201cThe report seems to have explained a hypothesis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have already said that the normalization of our relations will be\u00a0step by step. Talking about the prospects of a military cooperation at this stage would be irrelevant. We are not there yet. We haven\u2019t even yet appointed a new ambassador to Israel,\u201d said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

Amidror will head an Israeli delegation to Ankara that will\u00a0begin discussions\u00a0over compensation to\u00a0families\u00a0of those\u00a0who died in clashes during the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0report alleged that in addition to the Marmara talks, Amidror was also assigned to try to resuscitate a 1996 agreement between Jerusalem and Ankara which allowed the Israeli Air Forces to train in Turkish airspace and use the Ak\u0131nc\u0131 airbase.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u00a0recently delayed\u00a0the beginning of talks with Israel over compensation for the Marmara flotilla.<\/p>\n

The talks were delayed until Monday because Turkey\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc had to accompany Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a trip to Kazakhstan on the originally scheduled date.<\/p>\n

Arinc, who will lead the negotiating on behalf of Turkey, told the Hebrew-languageNRG<\/em>\u00a0news site last week that \u201cTurkey anticipates full restoration\u00a0of relations with Israel. I will lead the Turkish delegation for negotiations with Israel next week on restitution for the nine Mavi Marmara victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Turkey dismisses report suggesting that an Israeli delegation would hold talks about using a Turkish airbase to train for a attack in Iran. \u00a0By Elad Benari F-15 Fighter Jet Flash 90 Turkey dismissed on Sunday evening a news report suggesting that an Israeli delegation set to arrive in Ankara on Monday would hold talksabout Israel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,148],"tags":[9067,9069,9068,2344,3044,9731,9070],"class_list":["post-69912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","category-israel","tag-f-15","tag-iran-nuclear-threat","tag-iran-strike","tag-irans-nuclear-programme","tag-mavi-marmara","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-israel-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69912","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=69912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}