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Turkish navy to escort aid ships to Gaza, Erdogan says
Turkish warships will escort aid ships to Gaza in the future to protect them from raids like the deadly one carried out by Israel last year, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
By News Wires (text)
AP - Turkey’s prime minister has said Turkish warships will escort Turkish Gaza-bound aid ships in the future.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Al-Jazeera television that the navy will accompany the aid ships to protect them from raids like the one Israel launched on a flotilla trying to break the Gaza blockade last year, when nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed.
Erdogan’s comments to Al-Jazeera were carried by Turkey’s Anatolia news agency late Thursday.
Turkey has already announced it would increase patrols in the eastern Mediterranean in response to Israel’s refusal to apologize for the raid. But it was the first admission that Turkey intends to send warships to protect ships trying to break the blockade.
Israel has expressed regret for the loss of lives but insists its forces acted in self-defense.
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Comments (7)
Culture of Death
Well what do we have here, the typical prevaricators of the Cresent. Israel will take out Ankara faster that Erdogan can murder another Kurd.
Finally a language Israel understands
Since Israel is keen on using violence to implement security for itself, it should understand the need for Turkey to do the same! Israel has demonstrated what happens if outside support for the Palestinian case is served by unarmed aid ships bound for the Gaza strip. Next time the language Israel understands will be used!
Free Navigation in International Water
Turkey, as the leader of the Islamic world has righly declared that she will try to prevent High sea pirating, buccaneering by terrorist at high sea/International water like the Somali pirates. Free passage for all shipping must be assued by all at International water.
Israeli sea blockade
AND RIGHTLY SO. Pirating, buccaneering and lawlessness must not prevail at high sea/International water. Free navigation should prevail for all.
EU? No way! Get back to Altai!
Let's forget who Turks are and what they did in the past!Look closely how Turkey behaves towards other nations! They don't respect the UN's decisions, their own folk, its neighbours or anything that they don't like! Meanwhile they want to be a member in the EU!
Well, there's one simple conclusion; Neither Turks are Europeans nor Turks deserve to be part of it! Shame that Turks live in the Anatolian peninsula!
Turkish warships
Erdogan is acting irresponsible and intentionally provoking Israel risking war and the loss of lives. To my thinking this is a criminal act.
Greed is blind. Conceit is a sickness.
And its all to do with Israel’s refusal to apologize. For a race of people who want the world to support them its too hand to say sorry after shooting 9 people in the head and back one once but several times. ^5 years of taking land and moving others like sheep so as to build their "homes" No need to say sorry either. And the jews wonder why people don'n like the way they treat their fellow human beings. Greed is blind. Conceit is a sickness.
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