{"id":35035,"date":"2011-06-05T01:13:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T22:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=35035"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:37:17","slug":"turkish-fm-urges-intl-community-to-warn-israel-not-turkey-on-flotilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/06\/05\/turkish-fm-urges-intl-community-to-warn-israel-not-turkey-on-flotilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish FM urges int\u2019l community to warn Israel, not Turkey, on flotilla"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu has pointed to Israel as the party that should be receiving warnings over a second flotilla while responding to international calls on Turkey to prevent the flotilla from sailing to the Gaza Strip in breach of an Israeli naval blockade.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSometimes the international community has no courage to warn Israel and it chooses different ways,\u201d Davuto\u011flu, speaking on Thursday, told Turkey\u2019s Habert\u00fcrk network in Konya, where he is campaigning for a parliamentary seat he hopes to win in general elections that are less than two weeks away.<\/p>\n

Along with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a number of countries earlier called on Turkey to prevent the flotilla from sailing again so as to not increase tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

Nine civilians, including eight Turkish nationals, were killed by Israeli naval commandos a year ago as a six-vessel flotilla, led by the Mavi Marmara, tried to breach the Israeli naval blockade on Gaza. Turkey demands an official apology and compensation to the families of the victims. Israel rejects this, claiming instead that its soldiers acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n

Davuto\u011flu criticized the international community for warning Turkey instead of Israel, saying the international community sometimes lacks the courage to confront Israel. \u201cThis is not the correct position,\u201d Davuto\u011flu said.<\/p>\n

Noting that not only Turkish nationals participated in the flotilla last year, Davuto\u011flu said there will also be international participation in this year\u2019s convoy, expected to set sail after Turkey\u2019s parliamentary elections on June 12.<\/p>\n

The Turkish foreign minister said efforts to portray the issue as bilateral tension between the two countries are only an attempt \u201cto cover up a crime against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe blockade of Gaza is a crime against humanity. This is not correct, not legal,\u201d Davuto\u011flu said, adding that Hamas and Fatah have agreed to join forces and that no rockets have been fired into Israel for months. \u201cWhat is the purpose of the blockade then? We cannot sustain this international order if the security and sovereignty of a nation in one region of the world is considered more important than all other states. This is why this issue should be prioritized in the international sphere and why everyone must act responsibly,\u201d Davuto\u011flu stressed.<\/p>\n

He also balked at calls to prevent the flotilla from sailing and said that in democratic societies it is impossible to intervene in the work of civil society organizations.<\/p>\n

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Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu has pointed to Israel as the party that should be receiving warnings over a second flotilla while responding to international calls on Turkey to prevent the flotilla from sailing to the Gaza Strip in breach of an Israeli naval blockade. \u201cSometimes the international community has no courage to warn Israel and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":35041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[1571,5727],"class_list":["post-35035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-ahmet-davutoglu","tag-second-flotilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35035","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=35035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}