Interesting article.



No doubt that prima facie, this has been a big diplomatic success for Turkey. It was however some what inevitable, as Israel was evidently at fault, and international rhetoric towards the incident was indicative of such. Furthermore many high ranking Israelis were pushing behind closed doors for the Israeli government to take the actions it took much sooner than when it did.



The element however, not widely discussed is the US angle. No doubt the US preferred this route to normalise the relations between two Middle Eastern allies, which is the default reason for its apology push, but the other element is Iran. No doubt by doing what it did, the US has further opened the gap between the power play over Syria between Turkey plus predominantly Gulf Arabs as the Sunni bloc (although its more political and less sectarian than people realise) and the Iran shiite side.



No doubt that Turkey will never in the near future support any form of attack on Iran by the US and specially Israel, as the current power plays aside Turkey and Iran are still allies on paper. However with the new elements, no doubt the US hopes that Turkey will be more muted than otherwise to a military attack on Iran.