ISTANBUL, April 23 -- It is hard to imagine that only 200km away from here on Turkey's Black Sea coast there is a full-scale war going on which has killed 200,000 people in the past two years.

And to the south, the complete destruction of Gaza with unconscionable violence against Palestinian civilians has escalated into a direct Iran-Israel conflict.

In both wars, the protagonists have atomic weapons or are close to developing them. Russia has threatened to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, while Israel and Iran have both targeted locations of each other's nuclear facilities in this week's drone and missile attacks.

Although there are indications Iran and Israel are exercising restraint, a slight miscalculation could result in a...