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[1] this episode of the Caspian Report (an excellent Youtube channel on international affairs) discusses how Israel and Turkey are trying to establish stronger diplomatic ties in order to directly connect their maritime EEZ's and block Cyprus from the Mediterranean.

It would give the both access to undersea hydrocarbon deposits, and Israel was going to support route changes of pipelines to pass more through Turkey.

I suspect this project and goal is somehow intertwined, but I'm not versed enough with international relations to see the big picture.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvOMSTElVHk




Worth noting that Caspian Report is made by an azerbaijani guy who is, not very objective, with regards to matters that have to do with turkey

The video you talk about is probably talking about a proposal that Turkey made to Israel which runs counter to every international maritime law (it was promptly rejected by israel) . AFAIK they made similar proposals to egypt




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