Liberman: Let's stop deluding ourselves

Turkey has no intention of improving relations with Israel, Zionist regime's Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avigdor Liberman said on Saturday.

“My opposition to apologizing to Turkey is not new, and I expressed it clearly before and after it happened,” Liberman wrote on his Facebook page, referring to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s March 22 apology for the Israeli takeover of Gaza protest ship Mavi Marmara in 2010.

“I reasoned and explained that it will not improve relations between the countries but will only harm Israel’s standing in the region and play into the hands of extremists in the Middle East, with Turkey under extremist [President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan among them,” Liberman continued.

“I am therefore not surprised by Turkey’s accusation that Israel is behind the report in The Washington Post about ‘revealing spies to Iran,’ and I don’t even know if there was such a spy ring.

” The Yisrael Beytenu leader’s comments came shortly after Turkish daily Hurriyet reported that Turkey’s intelligence agencies believe that a report by The Washington Post foreign affairs analyst David Ignatius, accusing Ankara of giving Iran information about Mossad spies, was part of an Israeli campaign to discredit Turkish National Intelligence Organization head Hakan Fidan.