Introduction; An understudied period; Democratization, Asymmetry and Regional Crises; Structure of the book; Background of Turkish-Israeli relations; Structural determinants; A structural asymmetry; Relations during the 1950sChapter 1: The May 27 Coup, the Military Regime, and Israel; Introduction; Hopes; The immediate reaction to the coup; The Rise of a Pro-Israeli Coalition and Initial Difficulties; First Difficulties; Successes; Cyprus; Renewals; New Beginnings; Disappointments: Shared interests against the UAR but limited balancing; Turkey''s Position at the UN; The deteriorating factors shaping the Ankara''s position; ConclusionChapter 2: The First Years of the Second Republic: Waiting for Normalization; Introduction; A Favorable International Context and a Radically New Domestic Configuration; The 1961 constitution: A revolution; The tense first years of the Turkish Second Republic; A favorable regional context; The Long Road Toward Normalization; The significance of the new regime for Israeli diplomats; Turkey''s pro-Israeli public opinion; The normalization that never came The strengthening of the political relations; An asymmetric technical cooperation; Israel: the solution to Turkey''s problem; The technical cooperation between Turkey and Israel; The character of the cooperation; Israel, a model for the Turkish left?; ConclusionChapter 3: Cyprus: A Violent Shock to the Turkish Political System and to Turkish-Israeli Relations; Introduction; Cyprus, Turkey''s Emotions, and Israel''s Hesitations; The Cypriot Crisis of 1964 and its Impact on Turkey; Israel''s Delicate Position on Cyprus; Turkish-Israeli Relations in the Context of the Cyprus Issue, from Cooperation to Estrangement; A few Months of Inertia: Turkish-Israeli relations at Their Peak; Shazar''s Message to Makarios; The Redefinition of the Turkish Foreign Policy; Arabs votes and zero-sum game The last positive developments in Turkish-Israeli relations; Freezing; The adoption of the Arab narrative by Turkish officials; A growing distrust; An increasingly pro-Arab public opinion; A last Israeli attempt; ConclusionChapter 4: The AP in power, a new vision of Turkey''s regional strategy; Introduction; The Justice Party (AP) and its impact on Turkey''s foreign policy; The rise of a new power; The AP''s pro-Arab policy; Turkish Israeli relations under the AP; Under Ürgüplü and IÅYık, a transition; The establishment of a new model; The relations under ÇaÄYlayangil; Changing balances of power in Ankara; The Turkish MFA between governments The government against counter-powers; A new economic model and its impact on Turkish-Israeli relations; Israel''s reaction: how to pressure an unfriendly government; The assessment of the new situation by Israeli diplomats; Limiting the degradation in an asymmetric configuration; ConclusionChapter 5: Turkey and the Six-Day-War; Introduction; The determinants of Turkey''s attitude; The Turkish public opinion, Israel and the Arabs; Domestic balances of power Global and regional dynamics; The reaction and its evolution in time; A gradual change in public opinion; The Turkish government''s reaction; ConclusionChapter 6 Radicalization of Domestic Politics, Deepening of Regional Problems, and Deterioration of Turkish-Israeli Relations (1968-1971); Introduction; The Configuration in Ankara; Domestic Determinants; Foreign determinants: the worsening of the Turkish-US relations; Turkey''s Extremists and Israel; Anti-Imperialism and anti-Israelism, the rise of a new far left; Turkey''s Islamist movement; Anti-Israeli extremists and the Turkish political system; Difficult years for the Turkish-Israeli relations; Turkey''s attitude toward the Arab-Israeli conflict; From official "neutrality" to an admitted alignment with the Arabs; Between Moscow and Amman, new contradictions in Ankara''s position; The emptying of Turkish-Israeli relations; The Al-Aqsa arson and Turkey''s participation in the Islamic Conference of Rabat: a case study of Ankara''s Middle Eastern policy; The Turkish reaction to the Al-Aqsa arson; Turkey''s participation in the Rabat Conference summit; ConclusionConclusion; The 1960s as a key period for Turkish-Israeli relations; The first honeymoon in Turkish-Israeli relations; A pivotal period in Turkish-Israeli relations; Democratization; Asymmetry; Regional crises; Turkey and Israel''s regional policy; Cyprus and the Six Day War; Turkish-Israeli relations then and now Sources; Key figures (partial biography)References.