Why would someone with seeming ties to radical Sharia loving Islam want to cozy up with Israel when Turkey wants to go away from a secular society to one under an Islamic thumb?
Keep my friends close and my enemies closer?
Or maybe not.
“Why would someone with seeming ties to radical Sharia loving Islam want to cozy up with Israel when Turkey wants to go away from a secular society to one under an Islamic thumb?”
There is probably a lot more than meets the eye here. Turkey is in terrible self-induced economic trouble. It used to be a place where Germans, Russians and Israelis vacationed. That has dried up, taking millions of dollars and causing much hardship. There was substantial trade between Israel and Turkey. I suspect that ended as well.
The Turks are trying to renew the money flow. If they don’t then the current government may fall. It is possible that Turkey could split worse than Syria; perhaps into four countries. They are trying to stall that by bringing back better times, which the crackdown on the current internal “enemies” has exacerbated.
Israel can do without Turkey but Turkey needs shekels.
Europe needs Gas
I doubt we are being told the truth about what is, and has, gone on anyway, so it's very hard to come up with a good judgment on these situations.
Heck, we don't even know what happened to TWA800, or MH370.