{"id":1752,"date":"2011-09-09T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2011-09-09T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:10:47","slug":"erdogan-turkish-navy-to-protect-gaza-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/09\/09\/1752\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan: Turkish navy to protect Gaza aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/gaza_aid_turkey.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Turkey&#8217;s naval forces would escort Turkish humanitarian aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister has said, following Israel&#8217;s refusal to apologise for its deadly raid on an aid flotilla heading to the besieged Palestinian territory in May 2010.  <!--more-->  <br \/>&#8220;We have humanitarian aid to be sent there. And our humanitarian aid will not be attacked anymore, as happened to the Mavi Marmara,&#8221; he told the Al Jazeera on Thursday.<br \/>&#8220;Turkish warships will be tasked with protecting the Turkish boats bringing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.&#8221;<br \/>Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara, the ship which aimed to break Israel&#8217;s naval blockade, and killed nine people &#8211; eight Turks and one US citizen of Turkish origin &#8211; in international waters, causing a diplomatic row between the two countries.<br \/>Erdogan also said that Turkey would closely monitor international waters and had taken steps to prevent Israel\u2019s unilateral exploitation of natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.<br \/>Dan Meridor, Israel&#8217;s intelligence minister, on Friday criticised Erdogan&#8217;s threat to send warships to escort aid vessels.<br \/>&#8220;These remarks are grave and serious, but we have no wish to add to the polemic,&#8221; Meridor said on Israeli army radio.<br \/>&#8220;It is better to stay quiet and wait &#8211; we have no interest in aggravating the situation by replying to such [verbal] attacks,&#8221; he said.<br \/>Turkish-Israeli relations hit a low last week after a UN report on the deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship said that Israel&#8217;s naval blockade of Gaza was legitimate but its raid on the flotilla trying to break the blockade was &#8220;excessive and unreasonable.&#8221;<br \/>Turkey has since expelled top Israeli diplomats, cut military ties with the country, pledged to lobby other nations in support of the Palestinians&#8217; statehood bid at the UN in September and promised increased Turkish naval patrols in the Mediterranean.<br \/>Israel has expressed regret for the loss of lives aboard the flotilla, but has refused to apologise, saying its forces acted in self-defence.<br \/>Turkey, however, is still seeking an apology in order to normalise a relationship once seen as a cornerstone of regional stability.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s naval forces would escort Turkish humanitarian aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister has said, following Israel&#8217;s refusal to apologise for its deadly raid on an aid flotilla heading to the besieged Palestinian territory in May 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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