Erdogan confidant proposes Israel-Turkey maritime deal that cuts out Cyprus

(Israel Hayom via JNS) — Following years of diplomatic strife, Turkey over the weekend signaled to Israel yet again its desire for rapprochement. On Monday, former admiral Cihat Yayci, a close confidant of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is expected to publish a first-of-its-kind proposal for an agreement on the countries’ shared exclusive economic zones in the Mediterranean Sea. The article will appear in the Israeli academic journal Turkeyscope — published by the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University — indicating in and of itself a desire to...