ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey deepened its rift with Israel on Monday by vowing to work for the recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations and by saying it has notified high-level Israeli diplomats they have two days to leave the country. Late last week, Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador after Israel refused to apologize for the botched Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound protest flotilla that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists last year. Israel has expressed regret for the loss of lives.
A U.N. report released last week called the Israeli raid "excessive and unreasonable," but also said Turkey and flotilla organizers contributed to the deaths.
The dispute has brought relations between the once-close allies to the verge of collapse, and injected a new element of instability into an already volatile region.
Turkey said Monday it has notified Ella Aphek, the Israeli Embassy's deputy head of mission, that she and other senior Israeli diplomats must leave by Wednesday now that Turkey has decided to downgrade its diplomatic ties with Israel to the level of second secretary.
2 comments:
I advise Israel to make cause immediately with the other minority, oppressed, and murdered for ages in the ME, the KURDS.
IF IT IS POSSIBLE
The Turks made their decision by national vote YEARS ago, and the expression of it in national policy should have been clear to all in 2003 (4th ID).
That a nation like Israel and an alliance like NATO continue on is a monument to DENIAL and a confirmation that what ordinary citizens foolishly do in their private lives, is certainly expressed in national policy.
Turkey is NOT a member of NATO, that the reality, and Turkey and the Turkish people are not allies of Israel and have no wish to be.
That's how it is
........They [the Turks] were, upon the whole, from the black day when they
first entered Europe, the one great anti-human specimen of humanity. Wherever
they went, a broad line of blood marked the track behind them, and, as far as
their dominion reached, civilization disappeared from view. They represented
everywhere government by force, as opposed to government by law."- William
Gladstone, 1876.
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