{"id":19393,"date":"2010-06-02T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T09:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=19393"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:47:17","slug":"finland-summons-israeli-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/02\/finland-summons-israeli-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland summons Israeli envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finland has summoned the Israeli ambassador to condemn a brutal attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying aid for the Palestinians under siege in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>State Secretary at the Finnish Foreign Ministry Pertti Torstila conveyed Finland&#8217;s &#8220;disappointment and concern over the increased spiral of violence in the volatile area&#8221; to Israeli ambassador to Helsinki Avi Granot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finland condemns the violent interception of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla on international waters and does not accept the disproportionate use of force against civilians,&#8221; AFP reported the Finnish Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Finland also called for &#8220;a reliable and thorough investigation&#8221; into the fatal incident by an &#8220;independent party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The condemnation comes one day after Israeli commandos launched a pre-dawn assault on the six-ship aid convoy in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea, at least 150km (90 miles) off the coast of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Flotilla was carrying more than 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the impoverished Gaza Strip, where a years-long Israeli siege has pushed the people on the verge of starvation.<\/p>\n<p>RB\/CS\/MMN<\/p>\n<p>Press TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland has summoned the Israeli ambassador to condemn a brutal attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying aid for the Palestinians under siege in the Gaza Strip. State Secretary at the Finnish Foreign Ministry Pertti Torstila conveyed Finland&#8217;s &#8220;disappointment and concern over the increased spiral of violence in the volatile area&#8221; to Israeli ambassador to Helsinki [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":32532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,89,922],"tags":[9770,3063,3062,595],"class_list":["post-19393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-turkey","category-world","tag-finland","tag-finnish-foreign-ministry-pertti-torstila","tag-israeli-envoy","tag-mediterranean-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}