Fresh off of yesterday’s leaking of the UN report on the Mavi Marmara flotilla killings, the Turkish government has expelled Israel’s ambassador and is suggesting further legal measures are in the offing.
The report, though claiming that the Israeli blockade of humanitarian goods from the strip was legal, also termed the killing of aid workers “excessive and unreasonable.” The release had been repeatedly delayed to allow Israel and Turkey to get their stories straight, something that never happened.
Turkish officials in the US say that the government is now pondering legal action against the Israeli soldiers and all officials involved in the attack, promising to “pursue the matter resolutely.”
Israeli officials shrugged off the move, and say they will never apologize for the killing of the aid workers, which they termed “actions of self defense.” The attack killed nine aid workers, eight of them Turkish and one a Turkish-American.
Why would Turkey have any links with a murderous on the way out regime "israel" is cause for concern given the proclivity of war crimes inflicted on the Palestinians since 1945.Turkey is better off without israel and america.
So refreshing to see a country stand up to israel's bullying, murder, and abuse. Good for Turkey.
Good Israel needs the world against the crimes they commit.And Turkey is a powerful country that Israel illegaly killed there civilians.If any other country did the same they would have the hole world calling for more than an apology.
It's one thing to be macho with the Palestinians and it's a completely different story to face the Turkish, eh Israel?
My hats off to Turkish governemnt. But it is also time for Turkey to face its own demones, the Armenian Genocide and the Kurdish issue. How many kurds were killed last week in Turkey?
Israel is doing a superb job of isolating and delitimazing itself.