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Friday, August 03, 2012

Turkey and Israel Drifting Back to Each Other? | EurasiaNet.org

Turkey and Israel Drifting Back to Each Other?
August 2, 2012 - 10:50pm, by Yigal Schleifer

Two years after the tragic Mavi Marmara incident, in which nine Turks were killed by Israeli commandos who stormed a ship attempting to break Israel's blockade on Gaza, Turkish-Israel relations remain frozen. Ankara maintains that only an Israeli apology, compensation to the families of the victims of the lifting of the Gaza blockade will allow it to restore relations. Israel, on the other hand, is ready to express its "regret" about the incident and pay some compensation, but is most certainly not ready to apologize or to consider changing its Gaza policy in order to appease Turkey.

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