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6 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011
Dead in the Water – By Yigal Schleifer | Foreign Policy
Dead in the Water – By Yigal Schleifer | Foreign Policy: “Dead in the Water
As Turkey cuts Israel adrift, the relationship between these two former allies is sinking fast. And petty politics aside, that’s bad news for a tense region.
BY YIGAL SCHLEIFER
The world owes a debt of thanks to that anonymous diplomat who leaked the long-delayed U.N. report on the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident — the ill-fated Israeli commando raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla that resulted in the deaths of nine Turks — to the New York Times, thus single-handedly ending months of endless speculation and finally putting the floundering Turkey-Israel relationship out of its misery.”