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Economic Relations Between Israel and Turkey

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Contemporary Israeli–Turkish Relations in Comparative Perspective

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This chapter examines the development of economic relations between Israel and Turkey since the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Ankara in 2002.

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Rivlin, P. (2019). Economic Relations Between Israel and Turkey. In: Sever, A., Almog, O. (eds) Contemporary Israeli–Turkish Relations in Comparative Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05786-2_7

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