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Turkey attacks and Israel defends Gaza blockade
Turkey attacks and Israel defends Gaza blockade
Ankara / Aden News Agency / AP / 02-06-2010
* Photograph of demonstrators gathered near the entrance of the residence of
Israeli ambassador to Turkey
to protest against Israel,
in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
Turkey's parliament
called on the government Wednesday to review all ties with Israel as the country prepared to welcome home
Turkish activists who had been detained after Israel's bloody raid on a
Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
In Israel, all
remaining pro-Palestinians activists from the aid ships were sent to Ben Gurion
airport in Tel Aviv to be expelled. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said Israel decided
not to prosecute any of them, writing in an order Wednesday that "keeping
them here would do more damage to the country's vital interests than
good."
Israel has come
under harsh international condemnation after its commandos stormed a six-ship
aid flotilla Monday in international waters, setting off clashes that killed
nine activists and wounded dozens. The nearly 700 activists — including 400
Turks — were trying to break the three-year-old Israeli and Egyptian naval
blockade of the Gaza Strip by bringing in 10,000 tons of aid.
Israel rejects claims that Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian crisis,
saying it allows more than enough food, medicines and supplies into the
territory.
By Wednesday evening,
the Israeli Interior Ministry said 165 activists had already been deported and
another 505 were at Ben Gurion airport waiting to be cleared for flights
abroad. Three more activists, two of them Turks, are in serious condition and
will remain in Israeli hospitals until they can be moved.
In Turkey, Yavuz Dede, the vice-president of the
Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief, or IHH,
alleged that Israel
had failed to account for all the passengers and crew on the six ships, and was
deliberately delaying the activists' departure to cover up the missing persons.
"We see this delay
in the planes' (taking off) as an attempt to disguise the loss of people,"
Dede told a press conference at IHH headquarters in Istanbul.
The Israeli Interior
Ministry however, said all those on board the aid convoy had been accounted
for.
Turkish and Greek
protesters were to fly home on special planes sent by their respective
governments, while others from the nearly 20 nationalities on the ships were
traveling on commercial flights. More than 120 activists from a dozen Muslim
nations without diplomatic relations with Israel
were deported to Jordan
before sunrise.
A rally for the
activists was being held in Istanbul's
main square.
The commando raid has
seriously strained ties between Israel
and Turkey.
Turkey withdrew its
ambassador, scrapped war games with Israel and demanded a U.N. Security
Council meeting on the clash as a result. Hundreds of Turks protested Israel's commando raid for a third day Wednesday
and Israeli diplomats' families in Ankara
began packing to leave following orders from the Israeli government.
The Turkish Parliament
in Ankara held a heated debate on whether to
impose military and economic sanctions on Israel. Lawmakers of Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party objected to the
measures, apparently anxious to avoid aggravating the situation, but eventually
agreed on a declaration that was approved by a show of hands.
The lawmakers said Israel must
formally apologize for the raid, pay compensation to the victims and bring
those responsible to justice.
"This attack was an
open violation of United Nations rules and international law," Deputy
Parliament Speaker Guldal Mumcu said, reading out the declaration. "Turkey should seek justice against Israel through
national and international legal authorities."
Erdogan, meanwhile,
chaired a security meeting Wednesday of the country's top military commanders
to discuss the Israeli raid, as well as Kurdish rebel attacks.
Turkish Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu said Israel
agreed not to charge the activists after Turkey applied diplomatic pressure.
"We have clearly
stated that we would review our ties with Israel if all Turks not released by
the end of the day," Davutoglu told a news conference. "No one has
the right to try people who were kidnapped in international waters."
Davutoglu also called for
an international commission to investigate the nine deaths.
The Turkish government
said 15 injured Turks would be flown to Ankara,
where they will be questioned by state prosecutors who may press charges
against those responsible for their injuries, the semi-official Anatolian News
Agency reported.
Also Wednesday, Egypt eased its naval blockade of Gaza and at the newly opened crossing in the border town
of Rafah, about 300 Palestinians entered through
Gaza's main
gateway to the outside world. A smaller number entered Gaza
from Egypt and humanitarian
aid also came into Gaza, including blankets,
tents and 13 power generators donated by Russia
and Oman.
Gaza has been under an Israeli and Egyptian
blockade since Hamas militants seized power in 2007. Egypt's opening of the border was
believed to be temporary, although the government did not say how long it would
last.
Fallout from the Israeli
raid continued. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced his country was
breaking diplomatic relations with Israel
and British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Israel
to lift the Gaza
blockade, calling the raid "completely unacceptable."
Pope Benedict XVI urged
both sides to resolve the problem with dialogue, not violence, telling pilgrims
in St. Peter's Square that he was worried the raid would have "dramatic
consequences and generate more violence."
And on the horizon,
another ship controversy was brewing. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen appealed
to Israel to let a private
Irish ship deliver its aid cargo to Gaza but
admitted Wednesday that Israel
would probably block the ship because part of the cargo was concrete.
The 1,200-ton ship
Rachel Corrie carries wheelchairs, medical supplies and concrete. It was named
after an American college student crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer
while protesting house demolitions in Gaza.
The ship was supposed to join the aid flotilla but was delayed by mechanical
problems. It is currently waiting off the Libyan coast.
Those aboard include
Mairead Corrigan, a 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner from Northern Ireland, and
Denis Halliday, who previously ran U.N. humanitarian aid programs in Iraq.
In Ankara,
Turkey's interior minister,
Besir Atalay, said Turkey
had beefed up security to protect its Jewish minority as well as Israel's
diplomatic missions. He said security provisions were intensified at 20 points
in Istanbul
alone. The city has several synagogues and Jewish centers that serve 23,000
people.
"Our Jewish
citizens are not foreigners here. They make up an essential part of our
community. We have lived together for centuries, and we will continue to do
so," Davutoglu said.
In 2003, al-Qaida-linked
suicide bombers attacked the British consulate, a British bank and two Jewish
synagogues in Istanbul,
killing 58 people. In 1986, gunmen killed 22 people in an attack on Istanbul's Neve Shalom
synagogue.
Trade between Turkey and Israel
was worth $2.5 billion in 2009 and Turkey's
exports to Israel were
expected to rise by $1 billion this year, Turkey's minister for foreign
trade, Zafer Caglayan, told journalists.
"(But) if the state
terror of Israel
remains like this, all these trade figures will be ignored," Caglayan said.
* Photograph of demonstrators gathered near the entrance of the residence of
Israeli ambassador to Turkey
to protest against Israel,
in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 2, 2010.