"Turkish Funds Helped Group Test Blockade of Gaza
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Published: June 1, 2010
ISTANBUL — Since 2007, a small group of hard-core activists has repeatedly tried to sail cargo-laden ships into Gaza in an effort to thwart Israel’s blockade. But when the Free Gaza Movement teamed up with a much wealthier Turkish organization to assemble a flotilla, it became more than a nuisance, supercharged by the group’s money, manpower and symbolic resonance into what Israel sees as a serious and growing threat."
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