The Yediot Ahronot website states that “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is interested in appointing an ambassador to Israel before the Knesset elections in early November next year, pending the return to power of opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu.” steps to normalize and restore diplomatic relations between the two sides.

She explained that “there are fears in Israel that Erdogan may decide to appoint the diplomat Ulutas as ambassador to Tel Aviv. Ulutas is currently the head of the Center for Strategic Studies at the Turkish Foreign Ministry”, noting that “Israel strongly opposes the appointment of Ulutas because he is considered hostile to Israel, “prominent and even anti-Semitic”.

The newspaper stated that Ulutas studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and spoke Hebrew, and that he denied Israel’s right to exist in the Palestinian territories and accused it of carrying out ethnic cleansing in an article he had published in the past and attacked the agreement to normalize relations between the Emirates and Israel through tweets on Twitter.”

And Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s office announced last Wednesday that an agreement had been reached on a second exchange of ambassadors between Ankara and Tel Aviv, several years after the withdrawal of ambassadors and the reduction of diplomatic representation between Israel and Turkey.