A Research on the Causes of Turkey-Israel Discord

Abstract: Turkey and Israel used to be the closest alliance in the Middle East region. But in recent years, the relation between the two nations has totally reversed. The reasons that lead to the deterioration of the two nations’ relation including: the influence of the personal ideology orientation and characteristic of the political leaders, the factors of the social tidal current changing and the political situation developing inside the related nations, and the internationalization and the complication trend of the Kurds problem caused by the regional and international political change after the Iraq War. Especially, the crisis in the relation between Turkey and Israel not only has resulted in the reset of the security alliance among the nations in the region, but will also bring more uncertainties to the future of the Middle East peace process and the development trend of the multinational Kurds problem in this region.