Abstract:
Turkey and Israel had a good diplomatic relations and cooperated in any spheres
for decades since 1949, but the incident of the attack towards Turkish flotilla, Mavi
Marmara in 2010 by the Israeli Defense Forces, which was in a humanitarian
mission to Gaza led to the death of some Turkish people, and the incident made
relations between the two states deteriorated. Turkey downgraded its diplomatic
status with Israel into minimum level and severed all forms of cooperation with
Israel. They required some demands to Israel as a condition for returning a normal
diplomatic relations, and if Israel did not fulfill all the demands, the relationship
between the two countries will never be normal. But the change of behavior
occurred in Turkey where they remained to reconcile the relationship with Israel,
despite conditions that are enforceable to Israel has not been completed. The
Factors influencing changes in Turkey's foreign policy in reconciling with Israel
will be analyzed in this paper explicitly. Foreign policy case study will use one
theory approach to foreign policy, namely, "Rational Choice Theory". Period of
time taken for this study were taken from 2010 until 2016, precisely after Mavi
Marmara attack in 2010 until the reconciliation took place in 2016. This research
is a descriptive and analytical uses a qualitative approach through bilateral relations
between Turkey and Israel
