This high level exchange will send a clear message that Turkey and Israel are ready to cooperate as firm allies while Erdogan continues to reach out to the Arab world.
With more speakers in a conversation, it is more likely that different ideas will be expressed, more questions asked, and potentially higher level exchanges of reasoning.
The confrontation with Beijing puts a chill on Mr. Bush's first high-level exchanges with the Chinese leadership.
China stepped up its maritime dispute with Japan today as it halted high-level exchanges over the extended detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain.
It is understood that yesterday's meeting between the foreign ministers had been preceded by urgent high-level exchanges over the past few days.
The suspension of high-level exchanges risks derailing ongoing talks over drilling rights to potentially vast oil and gas deposits in disputed areas.
Analysts say Beijing rebuffed earlier proposals of high-level exchanges because it wanted to demonstrate its displeasure and was not guaranteed a meeting with Kim if it sent an envoy to Pyongyang.
Japan claimed today that it had not been officially told of China's decision to break off high-level exchanges amid a deepening row over the detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain.
"Until now, relations were predicated very much on the status quo," he said, pointing to Turkey's previous foreign policy of open borders, trade and high-level exchanges such as joint cabinet meetings with neighboring countries.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's effort to marshal global support for new sanctions against Iran hit another snag on Thursday, when China said it was seeking to increase cooperation and high-level exchanges with Iran, suggesting that it would not support additional punitive measures over Tehran's nuclear program.
"The North's provocations backfired and have pushed China and the U.S. closer together, resulting in more frequent high-level exchanges between the two countries," Zhang Liangui, an analyst at the Communist Party School, was quoted as saying in The Global Times newspaper.
