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Turkey wants to make peace with Israel
ANKARA - Turkey’s foreign minister on Saturday said the country wants improved ties with Israel but it must apologize and offer compensation for its deadly raid on a Gaza Strip-bound aid flotilla.
That's an interesting way to 'improve ties' ...
“We have the intention of making peace with Israel,” the state-run Anatolia news agency quoted Ahmet Davutoglu as saying during a meeting with a group of journalists in Istanbul. “We are for peace with all countries.”
As long as they do as you want ...
“Why should we want bad relations with a country with whom we are trying to broker peace,” Davutoglu said in reference to Turkey’s mediation between Israel and Syria in 2008, a role that won this NATO member international praise.

Relations between the two soured with Turkey’s Islamic-oriented government’s increasingly vociferous criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. They hit an all-time low in May, when Israeli naval commandos killed nine activists from Turkey on board a Gaza-bound ship that tried to breach Israel’s naval blockade.
Next time you want to 'improve ties', try not to provoke your friends ...
Israel wants Turkey to return its ambassador and remove the raid from the international agenda.

“Turkish citizens have been killed in international waters, nothing can cover up this truth,” Davutoglu said. “We want to both preserve relations and defend our rights. If our friendship with Israel is to continue, the way for it is to apologize and offer compensation.”
Those 'citizens' tried to kill Israelis. The Israeli government, as you may have heard, takes a dim view of that.
High-ranking Israeli and Turkish officials held two-days of talks in the Swiss capital, Geneva, aimed at mending ties after Turkey sent aircraft and firefighters to help Israel battle a wildfire earlier this month.

“We are having difficulties when it is not reciprocated,” Davutoglu said of the Turkish gesture.
Posted by: Steve White 2010-12-26
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