Israel–Turkey relations: what Wikipedia removed
Israel and Turkey’s relationship has deteriorated sharply since the early 2000s. Through 2015 the opening attributed this to a realignment “from secular Israeli-oriented to Islamist pro-Arab stance” under Erdoğan. Today the word is nowhere in the article, and the opening says only that relations “have deteriorated considerably” without naming why. A reader arriving now does not learn that Wikipedia once characterized the shift in Turkish policy as Islamist.
The word “islamist” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| islamist | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”- The original opening sentence naming the article’s subject as Israeli-Turkish bilateral ties is gone, replaced by a rewritten introduction.
- A sentence dating the formalization of relations to March 1949 is gone from the opening in its original phrasing.
- This is the sentence characterizing Erdoğan’s foreign policy shift as a realignment toward an Islamist pro-Arab stance, the passage this finding is built on.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 371089518):
Bilateral relations Israel–Turkey relations were formalized in March 1949 when Turkey became the first Muslim majority country (before Iran in 1950 ) to recognize the State of Israel . Since then, Israel has been a major supplier of arms to Turkey. Military, strategic, and diplomatic cooperation between Turkey and Israel were accorded high priority by the governments of both countries, which share concerns with respect to the regional instabilities in the Middle East. Nevertheless, diplomatic dialogue between the two nations has recently become strained, particularly following the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza Conflict , and further after Israel boarded a vessel on its way to break Israel’s military…
2025 (revision 1294383025):
Bilateral relations between Israel and Turkey Bilateral relations President Isaac Herzog during his state visit to Turkey with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, March 2022 The State of Israel and the Republic of Turkey formally established diplomatic relations in March 1949. Less than a year after the Israeli Declaration of Independence , Turkey recognized Israeli sovereignty , making it the world’s first Muslim-majority country to do so. Both countries gave high priority to bilateral cooperation in the areas of diplomacy and military/strategic ties, while sharing concerns with respect to the regional instabilities in the Middle East . In recent decades, particularly under Turkey’s Erdoğan administratio…
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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