Obama Says Israel, Turkey PMs Speak On Phone
US President Barack Obama said the Israeli and Turkish premiers held a rare telephone call on Friday, welcoming the move in a statement issued before he wound up a three-day trip to the Holy Land.
"I welcome the call today between (Israeli) Prime Minister
(Benjamin) Netanyahu and (Turkish) Prime Minister (Recep Tayyip)
Erdogan," he said, stressing the need to heal the deep rift since 2010
between Washington's two allies.
"The United States deeply values our close partnerships with both
Turkey and Israel, and we attach great importance to the restoration of
positive relations between them in order to advance regional peace and
security," he said.
"I am hopeful that today's exchange between the two leaders will
enable them to engage in deeper cooperation on this and a range of other
challenges and opportunities," Obama said.
Once flourishing ties between Israel and its only Muslim ally
Turkey deteriorated after Erdogan stormed out of a Davos panel with
Israeli President Shimon Peres following Israel's war in Gaza in
December 2008-January 2009, telling him: "You know well how to kill
people."
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