Turkey appoints an ambassador to Israel
Turkey announced the appointment of an ambassador to Israel for the first time in four years, in a sign of the growing rapprochement between the two countries, the official Anatolia News Agency reported Thursday.
Anadolu said that Ambassador Şakir Ozkan Torunlar will take up his post in Tel Aviv after Israel appointed Irit Lilian as its ambassador to Ankara last month.
It is noteworthy that relations between the two countries deteriorated in 2010 when Israeli forces stormed a ship expressing solidarity with Gaza, in an accident that killed 10 Turkish citizens.
A rapprochement between the two countries followed in 2016.
But the two countries withdrew their ambassadors again during the Gaza crisis, which escalated when the United States moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Torunlar served as consul general in East Jerusalem between 2010 and 2014, according to the website of the Turkish consulate.
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