An Israeli report suggests that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is interested in appointing an ambassador to Israel ahead of Knesset elections in early November, anticipating the return of opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu to power, a rollback of normalization and Establishing diplomatic relations between the two sides
And the website of the Yediot Aharonot newspaper stated: “There is concern in Israel that Erdogan will decide to appoint diplomat Afek Olutas as ambassador to Tel Aviv, and Olutas is currently the head of the Strategic Research Center of the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
According to this newspaper, “Israel strongly opposes the appointment of Olotash, because he is considered strongly anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic.”
The newspaper announced that Olotash had studied at Israel University in Jerusalem and spoke the Israeli language, and with an article he published in the past, he denied Israel’s right to be in the Palestinian territories and accused it of ethnic cleansing. And he attacked the normalization agreement between the UAE and Israel via Twitter.
Olotash wrote in his tweet: Abu Dhabi and Israel – two abnormal phenomena in the Middle East – how and when will they normalize their relations with the Middle East street? What kind of normalization could create this unnatural union?
This newspaper wrote: “Israel plans to appoint diplomat Irit Lillian as ambassador to Turkey after she was in charge of the embassy in Ankara for the past year and a half.”
He noted that “Diplomat Lilian played an important role in the reconciliation between the two countries.”
The report adds: “Lilian had close relations with Erdogan’s office, especially with Ibrahim Kalin, the adviser to the Turkish president, the architect of reconciliation with Israel, during his tenure as the Israeli embassy in Ankara. He also had good relations with the Turkish Foreign Ministry. Ministry.”
And estimates in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted: “In the Knesset elections, there will be no legal problems for Lilian’s appointment as ambassador to Ankara, as she is considered a professional diplomat.” And his appointment is not political, but it is not clear that the legal adviser of the government agrees.
And Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s office announced last Wednesday that Ankara and Tel Aviv have agreed to exchange ambassadors again after several years of ambassador withdrawals and reduced diplomatic representation between Israel and Turkey.
Source: Lebanon Debate
