Dan Senor

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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · The Turkey-Israel Proxy War in Syria - with Nadav Eyal · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

Before today's episode, a quick housekeeping note. voice-verified

On Thursday, October 22nd, just five days ahead of the Israeli elections, Call Me Back will hold a live taping at the Stryker Center in New York City, where I'll sit down with Dan Shapiro, Dahlia Scheinlin, and Brett Stevens to discuss what's at stake in Israel's 2026 election and what its results will mean for the U.S.-Israel relationship. voice-verified

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If you want to join us, please follow the link in the episode description. voice-verified

Now, on to today's episode. voice-verified

For nearly a year, Israel and Turkey have run what seems to have been an unspoken arrangement in Syria. voice-verified

Ankara gets political and economic primacy in Syria's north, Jerusalem keeps its freedom to strike in Syria's south, and neither side says so out loud. voice-verified

Well, that arrangement seems to have broken on August 18th when Israel struck the voice-verified

Abu al Duhar Air Base in northwestern Syria. voice-verified

Setting intelligence that Turkey was about to install radar and military infrastructure there. voice-verified

Israel's defense minister, Yisrael Katz, warned Ankara against what he called, quote, dangerous adventures. voice-verified

It was the most direct Israeli-Turkish military friction in years. voice-verified

But many had warned about it coming, including on this podcast. voice-verified

Eleven days earlier in Mecca, Turkey signed a mutual defense pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. voice-verified

To put this in context, Turkey is a NATO commitment binding. voice-verified

Military power. voice-verified

Pakistan is a nuclear-armed state, and Saudi Arabia is the custodian of Islam's holiest sites. voice-verified

This arrives at the moment that Iran is at its weakest position in 40 years, its proxies gutted, its nuclear programs set back, its regional corridor severed. voice-verified

This all raises an uncomfortable question: is the vacuum left by Iran being filled not voice-verified

not by American brokered peace, but by a new Sunni power access led by Turkey, which is increasingly painting Israel, not Iran, as the region's destabilizing force. voice-verified

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