Israeli Prime Minister Yer Lepid meets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York.

It is considered an important meeting in terms of bilateral relations between the two countries.

After 2008, there was no one-to-one meeting between the top leadership of the two countries.

At this meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lepid has asked Erdoan to help bring back two Israeli citizens captured by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Simultaneously, Lepid has asked the Turkish president to help bring back the bodies of two soldiers who are believed to have died in 2014.

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office has said that the two leaders also discussed cooperation in the economic and energy sector.

Lepid thanked Erdoan for sharing the intelligence in early 2022.

Diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey were once again restored in August 2022.

Relations between the two countries have been strained since 2010, when ten civilians were killed in an Israeli raid on a Turkish ship carrying relief supplies to break the siege of the Gaza Strip.

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