Tom Barrack, U.S. ambassador to Turkey:

Israel had told us five days earlier that it was concerned about the situation.

We consulted our intelligence agencies. Syria spoke with Mossad and provided information that there is no Turkish army, no Turkish convoy, no Turkish weapons, and that no hostile or offensive action was underway.

It was a Friday. They were supposed to meet again the following week.

Both the Syrians and the Americans all thought this would be an ongoing conversation. We have formed a joint cell. They should continue discussing it.

And something went wrong, and Israel decided that it had to bomb the runways’ approaches of the two landing runways.

The problem is that Turkey did not know that this was going to happen.

So the main issue here is that without prior notice, a country like Turkey—which has a powerful army, a powerful air force, and harsh political rhetoric between Israel and Turkey—incidentally, in my view, more of a political matter—yet the Israeli jets came within up to 80 kilometers of their border without prior notice.