Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre Thursday September 08, 2011 23:25 by Alaa Ashkar – IMEMC & Agencies Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdgan, stated Thursday that Ankara intends to protect and support all Turkish ships, loaded with humanitarian aid, bound to the besieged Gaza Strip. Turkish PM Receb Tayyip Erdogan – sonara.net “Turkey will be [...]
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Turkey vows to challenge Israel at sea
Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre PressTV – Thu Sep 8, 2011 11:0PM GMT Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will flex its naval muscles in the Mediterranean, providing a warship escort for any Gaza aid vessels. Turkey has announced that last year’s Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy would not be repeated since Ankara intends [...]
Erdogan: Turkish forces to escort aid to Gaza
Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre Defying Israel’s blockade, PM Erdogan says Turkey will send aid shipments to Gaza under the protection of naval forces. Last Modified: 08 Sep 2011 23:58 – Al Jazeera In May 2010, Israeli commandos raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, killing nine Turks and igniting a diplomatic row [EPA] Turkey’s naval forces would escort [...]
Turkish warships will escort aid vessels to Gaza
08 September 2011, Thursday / TODAYSZAMAN.COM WITH REUTERS,Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Turkey said on Thursday it would escort aid ships to Gaza and would not allow a repetition of last year’s Israeli raid that killed nine Turks, setting the stage for a potential naval confrontation with its former ally. Raising the stakes in Turkey’s [...]
Arraf and Finkelstein rip ‘farce’ UN flotilla report on ‘Democracy Now’ – video
By Annie on September 7, 2011 | Mondoweiss Excellent commentary and analysis from Huwaida Arraf and Norm Finkelstein. Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales interview two giants in the Democracy Now report: As Turkey Freezes Israel Ties, Critics Decry “Whitewashed” U.N. Report on Gaza Flotilla, Blockade. [partial transcript below] AMY GOODMAN: But the fact that this [...]
The Spirit of Rachel Corrie Mission to Gaza: Breaking the Illegal Siege
The Blockade Runners Part II Global Research| by Julie Lévesque | August 7, 2011- 2011-08-06 The following text recounts how the Gaza siege was almost broken by a lone humanitarian ship. What the Spirit of Rachel Corrie achieved, its crew and passengers, constitutes an outstanding act of courage and determination, taking the Israeli Navy totally by surprise. [...]
Lieberman wants to eject Turkish workers amid showdown over ties with Turkey
[ 28/07/2011 - 11:25 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman wants to eject some 350 Turkish construction workers as Israel’s relations with Turkey have spiraled after the 2010 flotilla attack. Israeli ministers Ehud Barak and Lieberman have been at odds over whether to meet Turkey’s condition of an apology over the [...]
Israel To Apologize For “Mistakes” During Flotilla Attack
Thursday July 28, 2011 10:32 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Ministerial Cabinet discussed on Wednesday the current crisis with Turkey that resulted after Israel attacked the Turkish solidarity Ship of the Freedom Flotilla last year, killing nine Turkish activist, and decided to apologize for what was described as “mistakes that took [...]
Activists onboard US aid boat return from Gaza – video
PressTV - Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:20AM Marjan Asi, Press TV, Washington Months of preparation, weeks in limbo and as charged as ever, the passengers of the US boat to Gaza have returned from the flotilla in high spirits. Passengers aboard the Audacity of Hope, a name shared with President Barack Obama’s [...]
UN Delays Publication Of Its Report On Israel’s Attack On Flotilla
Monday July 25, 2011 03:48 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The United Nations accepted an Israeli request to delay the publication of its report on the Israeli attack on the MV Marmara Turkish ship last year, leading to the death of 9 Turkish peace activists. Israel claims that the request came to allow [...]
#Flotilla | The Mavi Marmara Will Go Whenever the Palestinians Need It
by Silvia Cattori | July 21st, 2011 | Dissident Voice In mid June, Bülent Yıldırım, chairman of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, declared that the Mavi Marmara ship, which was hard hit in the Israeli raid, could not take part in the “Freedom flotilla II” but will “definitely set sail for Gaza when it completes repair [...]
OIC condemns new Israeli settlement plan, Dignite attack
[ 20/07/2011 - 05:23 PM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations, strongly condemned Israel’s recent decision approving 336 housing units in the West Bank, emphasizing that they were banned by international law. In a fresh statement released Wednesday, [...]
Israeli navy attacks “Oliva” boat
World is Watching Again Israel | LIVE UPDATES | Press Accompanies Fishingboats & get Attacked in #Gaza [ 20/07/2011 - 11:04 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli navy forces attacked the international boat, Oliva, run by human rights activists to monitor Israeli violations against Palestinian fishermen, on Wednesday inflicting damage to it. Sources in the marine [...]
Israel to deport Flotilla activists
PressTV – Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:11PM GMT The French yacht Dignite/Al Karama enters the Israeli southern port of Ashdod flanked by three Israeli naval vessels, July 19, 2011. Israel says it will deport 15 activists whose boat was intercepted by Israeli naval commandoes as it was trying to break Gaza Strip’s blockade. The [...]
AL slams seizure of Gaza-bound ship
PressTV - Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:56AM GMT Secretary General of the Arab League Nabil al-Araby (file photo) The secretary general of the Arab League has condemned Israel’s interception of a boat attempting to break the Gaza blockade, calling it an act of piracy. “I strongly condemn the act of piracy on the high [...]