Turkey’s erratic relations with Israel seemed to be on the upswing again amid news that Israeli authorities freed a Turkish woman charged with smuggling goods to a terrorist group and allowed her to return home on July 16.

Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin confirmed on Twitter that Ebru Ozkan was free and had been contacted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to convey his sympathy over her ordeal.

Ozkan was charged last week in an Israeli military court with passing money and a telephone charger to members of the militant group Hamas. She was also accused of smuggling five bottles of pricey perfume with the intent of selling them and passing the proceeds along to Hamas. She denied any wrongdoing. Ozkan may well have been the victim of sharper scrutiny afforded to Turkish citizens thought to be traveling to Israel under the guise of tourism with designs to further inflame tensions between Jews and Palestinians.

Yet even as Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu bemoaned Israel’s “pitiless persecutions” last week, saying relations would normalize only when “Israel stops its inhumane polices,” news emerged that Turkey had appointed a commercial attache to its embassy in Tel Aviv. Such apparent contradictions perfectly sum up the current state of Turkish-Israeli relations. Political tensions escalated anew in May, when Turkey recalled its ambassador and told Israel’s to leave over the United States’ decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem. Israel, in turn, showed the door to Turkey’s consul general in Jerusalem. Yet none of this conflict has stood in the way of flourishing trade.