Will Israel and Turkey go to war?
• Israel just assassinated one of the top HAMAS leaders, Ismael Haniyeh, in Tehran which is likely to escalate broader political tensions.
• Turkey’s president Erdogan had recently implied that the army is ready to wage war on Israel and Haniyeh was a personal friend and trusted ally of him.
• Will Turkey and Israel go to war? This is technically impossible because of the geographical distances involved.
• Yet, there are many more unpleasant scenarios which may be as harmful as war.
• On the political scene, attacks on Jewish targets in Turkey is a scary prospect.
• Erdogan’s loud antagonism to the Jewish state could also end up harming his country’s improving relations with US.
• Yet, the biggest and scariest spill-overs will take place in the realm of economics.
• How much can Turkey lose economically if Erdogan escalated anti-Israel rhetoric further or invents methods to annoy the latter? The answers are in this podcast.
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