1st Edition

Israel, Turkey and Greece Uneasy Relations in the East Mediterranean

By Amikam Nachmani Copyright 1987

    The triangle described in this book hardly exists in reality. Tripartite relations among Greece, Turkey and Israel, if discernible at all, revolve around the crises which constantly beset the Middle East and the East Mediterranean. Even then, it is not a triangle per se: the three states seldom pursue a common policy. This book describes the various bones of contention among the three in all possible spheres—political, economic, religious, etc.—as well as the areas and periods of understanding among them. What emerges quite clearly is the fact that any show of unanimity among Ankara, Athens and Jerusalem was, in the past, likely to rest more on some temporary community of interest than on any inherent belief in the need for unanimity.

    Part 1 A WINDOW ON THE MIDDLE EAST; Chapter 1 A Window on the Middle East: Eliyahu Sasson and the Israeli Legation in Turkey, 1949–1952; Part 2 TREADING THE TIGHTROPE; Chapter 2 Treading the Tightrope: Israeli-Turkish Relations, 1948–1958; Part 3 SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR; Chapter 3 So Near and Yet So Far: Greco-Israeli Relations Index;

    Biography

    AMIKAM NACHMANI