Mrs Ciller's party competes with Mr Yilmaz's Motherland Party for the votes of conservative-minded Turks.
Turkey's minority government , under Mesut Yilmaz, fell after a parliamentary vote of censure.
Mr Yilmaz's warm reception in Tel Aviv was preceded by a friendly welcome to Amman.
Mr Yilmaz can hardly complain if he finds himself caught in the middle of this battle.
The dour Mesut Yilmaz and his Motherland Party are not expected to cause much trouble.
Now that Mr Simitis and Mr Yilmaz have met, the Aegean should be a bit less dangerous.
Mr Yilmaz has looked reasonably disciplined since he took power from Turkey's first Islamist government last summer.
Encouraged by the Islamists, Mr Yilmaz decided to bring corruption charges in parliament against his then coalition partner.
Mr Yilmaz's cabinet, it is true, does not contain, as its piously Islamist-led predecessor did, a bigamist minister.
Why did Mr Yilmaz turn populist more than two years before he has to go to the polls?
The antipathy between Mrs Ciller and Mr Yilmaz prevents co-operation between the two main parties of the right.
Buruk Yilmaz made it 2-0 in the 70th minute with Sertan Vardar cutting the deficit with five minutes remaining.
Still, Costas Simitis of Greece, the host at the summit, and Turkey's Mesut Yilmaz, both German-speakers, got on well.
Mr Yilmaz arrived in the United States, in post-Luxembourg dudgeon, on December 17th.
Earlier this year, a German court convicted Kani Yilmaz, Mr Ocalan's representative in Europe, of extortion and attempted murder.
Mrs Ciller's party, to keep things even, has helped to block a parliamentary inquiry into Mr Yilmaz's private wealth.
If Mr Yilmaz re-embraces Mrs Ciller, he will further erode his own credibility.
The latest signs are that he might team up with Mr Bahceli and try to enlist Mr Yilmaz as well.
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Within Turkey's government, however, Mr Ecevit is balanced by the more pacific Mr Yilmaz and Ismail Cem, the foreign minister.
IMF's number two, who was fulsome in his praise of Mr Yilmaz's economic management when he visited Ankara last month.
Mr Yilmaz, then still caretaker prime minister, said this might be the next best thing to sending him to Turkey.
"People who have been affected by this wrong decision are spread all over the world, " said Ahmet Yilmaz, 43, from Turkey.
Second, Mr Ecevit feels that sticking with Mr Yilmaz will rob him of his main electoral asset, a reputation for probity.
Mr Yilmaz, in his visits to Amman and Tel Aviv, was accompanied by scores of businessmen and completed several bilateral agreements.
Mr Yilmaz wants to tackle the issue in direct talks with Greece.
The second reason may be that, 16 months after joining Mr Yilmaz's cabinet, Ms Saygin has done precious little for Turkish women.
Until recently, a rapprochement between Mrs Ciller and Mr Yilmaz seemed unthinkable.
That first Yilmaz-Ciller coalition having broken up, Mrs Ciller then went into her ill-fated alliance with the Islamists, which the generals eventually vetoed.
Burak Yilmaz then grabbed his eighth goal of the competition to put Galatasaray ahead and put himself top of the Champions League goalscoring charts.
Since then, the generals have bullied Mr Yilmaz into reducing entries to religious schools and enforcing restrictions on girls inclined to wear headscarves in lectures.
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