A month after U.S. President Barack Obama brokered a reconciliation of Turkish-Israeli relations, previously splintered by the Mavi Marmara affair, in which 11 Turkish citizens were killed, a high-level, three-member Israeli delegation commences talks under the direction of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Uncertainty over the Syrian civil war’s outcome and common concern about Iran’s regional hegemonic growth prompt the renewal of diplomatic and military relations.
