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Turkey appoints new ambassador to Israel

Xinhua, November 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

Kemal Okem, chief adviser on foreign policy to the prime minister, will be Turkey's new ambassador to Israel, Turkish President Recep Erodgan said Wednesday.

"He took up the position yesterday," Erdogan told reporters at the Ankara Esenboga Airport before leaving for an official visit to Pakistan on early Wednesday.

The Prime Ministry's adviser on foreign affairs Okem was informed about his new post on Nov. 15, the same day as Israel's Foreign Ministry nominated Eithan Na'eh as its new ambassador to Turkey.

Na'eh first needs to pass the Israeli government's security committee in order to be formally appointed to Ankara. Na'eh previously worked in the Ankara embassy in 1993 and also served as Israel's ambassador to Azerbaijan.

Turkey and Israel are expected to simultaneously announce a mutual exchange of ambassadors as part of a normalization deal following the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident. Endit