At a time when relations between the two countries are at an unprecedented low, from the well-known building ITENTIFIED with it at 202 Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv, “” Globes “has learned. The existing Embassy Building will be replaced by a hotel, at the End of a process that has lasted more than two decades.
Turkey was the first Muslim country who knew the condition of Israel, and sent a messenger here in 1950. The 800 square-meter Embassy at the Embassy lies opposite the Hilton Hotel. At first, it was rented from a privately held by Israel, but in 2009 the building was bought by a resident abroad for NIS 27 million. Even at sales time, the urban building plan allowed street buildings available for residential purposes or such a hotel, and a hotel is often likely to be the result.
In 2012, the Tev Aviv District Committee was approved for depositing a plan for resume Turkish Embassy Building in a hotel.
Focus on tension
The existing Turkish Embassy Building has become a source of stress between Israel and Turkey in steel warfare swords. After the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, Chairman of Hamas Political Bureau, in Tehran July 31 last year, Turkish presider recep Tayyip Erdogan. Two days later, the Turkish Embassy lowered the flag of half the mast, as it was found in the Israelites, because it was made on a Friday, because Promingo Tel Aviv is full of people, and because of the prominent location of the Embassy. Later, a drone tracking a flag of Israel putting on the building at the Embassy, which was angry with the Turks.
Embassy is also a source of strength in relationships between Israel and Turkey. Commercial relationships between two countries were not damaged in past crises, such as the Marmara Flotilla in 2010, and the death of Palestinians in the hands of Gaza Strip Border. In 2021, the last year before Abraham’s account began to make an effect, Turkey was the greatest companion of Israel’s trade in the Middle East. Imports from Turkey with $ 4.76 billion, and exported to country worth $ 1.91 billion. This is more than all trades in UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Bahrain mixed. In 2024, Turkey forbidden all the exports of the items in the ports of Israel, in protest against Gaza strips, but Israeli imports found restrictions. More recent, tensions appeared in contradictory interests in two Syrian countries, after the Fall of President Assad’s regime.
Moving will be a positive sign
At the beginning of this month, Turkey Ambassador in Israel Sakir Ozkan Torunar, remembering Ankara in 2023, retirement, and at the same time a new payment of Tel Aviv.
Related articles
Turkey has a consulate in Jerusalem. The Consul General has been appointed “the ambassador of Palestine.” Current Consul General, Ismail Corbanoglu, is responsible for Turkish activities in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and Gaza Strok.
The Movement of the Turkish Embassy can be a positive sign. If Ankara thought to break Israel’s relationships in support of Hamas, it would be invalid to invest in movement, after decades of Hayarkon Street. And as the possibility of a ceasefire growth, the issue of Palestinian is important to the politics of Erdogan, and in that respect he needed the relationship with Israel. Mapu Street may be a very positive diplomacy between two countries.
Published in Globes, Israel News in News – en.globes.co.il – On May 28, 2025.
© Copyright in Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd., 2025.
