Zionist Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that alliance with Turkey could be the key to regional balance, urging the returning of relations between Tel-Aviv and Ankara.

Zionist Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that alliance with Turkey could be the key to regional balance, urging the returning of relations between Tel-Aviv and Ankara.

"Turkey alongside Israel is a central factor in the prospect of strategically stabilizing a stable or worthy regional balance," Ehud Barak told graduates of the national security college in remarks relayed by his office.
"Hence, it’s important to return the relations with Turkey to their proper course," Barak added on Wednesday.

Relations between the Zionist entity and Turkey were worsened when Israeli occupation forces killed in May, 2010 nine Turkish activists as they raided Turkish ferry, part of an activist flotilla holding aid to the besieged Gaza strip.
Last year Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador and axed military ties and defense trade, after the Zionist entity refused to apologize for the attack.

For its part, Tel-Aviv cancelled completion of a contract to sell Turkey aerial surveillance equipment.
But on Sunday, a delegation of Turkish journalists arrived in Jerusalem at the Israeli foreign ministry's invitation.

The journalists met with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman who according to media reports told them that “while Israel had no reason to apologies, Israel and Turkey should find a way to restore relations.”

And in remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the beginning of a meeting with the delegation, the premier said that Turkey and the Zionist entity "have to keep looking for ways to restart the relationship", particularly now "for the stability of this region at this time".