After World War II, Turkey turned to the west and supported Israel very much. So 1948 When Israel was founded, Turkey was the first Islamic country to recognize Israel. It can be said that at that time, under the same western camp, the two countries had close relations.
However, Turkey found that no matter what it did, it could not be integrated into the western society, and gradually found that it was not a long-term solution to follow the west as an Islamic country, and it must return to the Arab world and be the leader of the Arab world. After all, the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor of Turkey, as the sovereign state of the Islamic world, has only existed as a whole of Christian civilization for thousands of years.