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19.04.26 - 15:27
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Turkey Could Be ′Next Iran′ For Israel: US Envoy Scrambles To Calm Tensions (ZeroHedge)
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Turkey Could Be 'Next Iran' For Israel: US Envoy Scrambles To Calm Tensions
Via Middle East Eye
US Envoy Tom Barrack has downplayed escalating tensions between Turkey and Israel as just "rhetoric" and pushed for regional cooperation between the two countries in security and energy projects.
Speaking during a panel at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Barrack pushed back against comments from some officials in both countries that suggested they could come into conflict in the near future. "I think Turkey is just not a country to be messed with," Barrack said.
Handout: Antalya Diplomacy Forum via AFP
Barrack said that both countries were seeing a distorted image of each other as a result of sensationalized media coverage that painted both as expansionist.
"So if you wake up in Tel Aviv, you read the newspaper, what do you see? You see the diagram on the paper of The Ottoman Empire 2.0, which is Vienna to the Maldives, right," he said.
"You wak...
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