{"id":505,"date":"2010-06-28T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T15:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=505"},"modified":"2010-06-28T15:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T15:40:55","slug":"turkey-closes-airspace-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/06\/28\/505\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey &#8216;closes airspace&#8217; to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"turkey2\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/turkey2.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"227\" \/>Turkey&#8217;s prime minister says his country has closed its airspace to some Israeli military flights. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was quoted by the state-run Anatolia agency, did not elaborate on the decision. He was speaking in Toronto, Canada, where he was attending the G20 summit.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move is bound to be interpreted as a measure of the country&#8217;s anger over a deadly Israeli raid on an aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip that killed nine activists of Turkish origin on May 31.<br \/>A Turkish official said on Monday the ban would not affect commercial flights.<br \/>&#8220;Military planes are required to obtain overflight permission before each flight. One military plane was denied permission immediately after,&#8221; a Turkish diplomat was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.<br \/>Another Turkish official said it was not a blanket ban and each flight request would be assessed case by case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flight detour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yediot Ahronot, an Israeli newspaper, reported on Sunday that Turkey had barred a jet carrying Israeli military officers en route to a tour of memorial sites in Auschwitz, Poland, to fly over Turkish airspace.<br \/>The aircraft, carrying more than 100 officers, was forced to make a detour to reach its destination, the paper said.<br \/>The Israeli military &#8220;refrained from responding officially to the event so not to exacerbate the rift in relations&#8221;, Yediot Ahronot said.<br \/>Ties between Turkey and Israel deteriorated dramatically following the flotilla raid, which saw Israeli troops boarding the lead ship Mavi Marmara, killing nine activists and injuring scores of others.<br \/>The action drew widespread international condemnation among the public as well as political leaders.<br \/>Israeli officials insist the troops involved in the raid acted in self-defence after allegedly being attacked by some of the activists on board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Soured ties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Relations between Turkey and Israel had already soured after Israel&#8217;s three-week war on Gaza in 2008-2009, in which around 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.<br \/>Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador from Israel and cancelled joint military operations with the country in response to the convoy attack.<br \/>Ankara said it will not return its ambassador and will reduce military and trade ties unless Israel apologises for the raid.<br \/>The country also wants Israel to return the seized aid ships, agree to an international investigation and offer compensation for the victims.<br \/>&#8220;Up to now, we have done whatever is necessary within the rules of law, whether national or international and we will continue to do so,&#8221; Anatolia quoted Erdogan as saying.<br \/>It said ties with Israel could return to normal if Israel meets Turkey&#8217;s demands.<br \/>&#8220;We are not interested in making a show. We don&#8217;t desire such a thing and<br \/>we have been very patient in the face of these developments,&#8221; Erdogan is quoted as saying said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Israeli inquiry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israel has objected to an international inquiry into its raid on the Freedom Flotilla and has set up its own investigative commission.<br \/>Jacob Turkel, the chief investigator of the Israeli commission, said on Monday it will summon Benjamin Netanyahu, the country&#8217;s prime minister, to testify.<br \/>Ehud Barak, Israel&#8217;s defence minister, and Gabby Ashkenazi, the military chief of staff, will also face the commission.<br \/>Under international pressure, Israel&#8217;s government has included two foreign observers: David Trimble, a Nobel peace laureate from Northern Ireland and a member of the British House of Lords, and Brigadier-General Ken Watkin, Canada&#8217;s former chief military prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s prime minister says his country has closed its airspace to some Israeli military flights. 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