A widening rivalry between Turkey and Israel is fueling fears that the two US allies could stumble into an "accidental" military clash. Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey and presidential envoy for Syria and Iraq, aired just such fears on Oct. 20 at a security forum in Doha, saying, “What we are all terrified about is an unintended accident that happens along this road.”

Turkey’s Islamist president and self-fashioned champion of Gaza, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been in power for more than two decades. Benjamin........

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