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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephone conversation with former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who won elections in Israel this month.

Netanyahu, who was tasked with forming a government, called Erdogan to express his condolences in connection with the terrorist attack in Istanbul.

Erdogan told Netanyahu that it is in the common interest to maintain relations based on mutual interests, respecting feelings and strengthening them in a sustainable way.

Erdogan said the incident two days ago in the West Bank upset them.

“The two leaders have agreed to start a new era in relations by working together,” Netanyahu’s Likud party said in a statement.

The phone call came at a time when relations between Turkey and Israel, long troubled, began to crumble. Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Ankara last year. The Duke’s visit was the first visit by an Israeli leader to Turkey since 2008.

Relations between Israel and Turkey have been strained for more than a decade. Ankara expelled the Israeli ambassador in 2010 after Israeli forces raided a humanitarian aid ship bound for Gaza and killed 10 Turkish citizens.

Diplomatic relations were restored in 2016, but after Israel killed a number of Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip, Turkey withdrew its diplomats from Israel and sent Israeli diplomatic representatives to their countries.

Following these events, the two countries mutually appointed ambassadors this year.

On Tuesday, a Palestinian killed three Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and was portrayed as a hero by Islamist militants.

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