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With Turkey issuing an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and 37 other officials over alleged genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza, there is a growing clamour that the current Tayyip Erdogan-led government is in no mood to normalise relations with Israel.

Though both Turkey and Israel have often been described as “reluctant partners", the latest escalation is unprecedented. The Middle Eastern states are bound by overlapping strategic interests but divided by political impulses, identity debates, and competing regional visions. Their relationship has swung between cooperation, crisis, and cautious resets for nearly three decades.

As regional tensions sharpen, new alliances take shape, and major powers reposition, the breakdown between

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