DUH..Israel fears Turks could pass its secrets to Iran...

Why does it take so long for the obvious to penetrate and act upon?

Is hiding from reality and denial one of the most powerful forces on earth?

Reuters

* Defence minister Barak makes rare intelligence complaint

* Crisis with Turkey adds to Israel's worries about Iran

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By Dan Williams

JERUSALEM, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak has voiced concern that once-stalwart ally Turkey could share Israeli intelligence secrets with Iran, revealing a deep distrust as Ankara's regional interests shift.

Ok, they were NEVER a stalwart ally any more than Irn was under the Shah. The PEOPLE can't stand Israel for the same reason the people of any arab nation have not been able to stand the jews since about 600 AD. This is NOT political.

The leaked comments by Barak cast doubt on how much Israel is willing or able to reconcile with Turks outraged at its navy's killing of nine of their compatriots aboard an aid ship that tried to run the Gaza Strip blockade on May 31.

Until relations soured, Turkey had been the Muslim power closest to the Jewish state, a friendship largely based on military cooperation and intelligence sharing.

In a closed-door briefing to activists aligned with his centre-left Labour Party at a kibbutz near Jerusalem on July 25, Barak still called Turkey a "friend and major strategic ally".

But he described Hakan Fidan, the new head of its National Intelligence Organisation, as a "friend of Iran".

"There are quite a few secrets of ours (entrusted to Turkey) and the thought that they could become open to the Iranians over the next several months, let's say, is quite disturbing," he said in a segment of the speech broadcast by Army Radio. Barak was speaking in the context of past Israeli-Turkish intelligence cooperation, an audience member told Reuters on Monday. An Israeli defence official said the event was private and that the aired recording of Barak had not been authorised.

Appointed in May, Fidan was previously a foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, whose AK Party has roots in political Islam and has often censured Israel.

Political sources in Ankara said that Fidan, a former envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, was also involved in a Turkish- and Brazilian-brokered compromise proposal -- received coolly in the West -- to curb Iran's controversial uranium enrichment.

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