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The Grand Turk
Turkey wants to make peace with Israel
2010-12-26
ANKARA - TurkeyÂ’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 TurkeyÂ’s Islamic-oriented governmentÂ’s increasingly vociferous criticism of IsraelÂ’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 IsraelÂ’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

#7  ION TOPIX > FOLLOWING WIKILEAKS: TURKEY HAS 90 NUCLEAR BOMBS | US HAS 90 NUCLEAR BOMBS OF "B61" VARIETY IN TURKEY.

In case of US-SOviet major = nuclear war, Approxi 5o US NucBombs will be loaded on TURKEY-BASED USAF Strike Aircraft while the remaining 40 will be loaded on Turkish AF planes.

* SAME > WIKILEAKS: ISRAEL BOMBED [destroyed] SYRIAN NUCLEAR FACILITY [at AL-KIBAR]. 2008 Wiki Cables + POTUS Dubya SecState CONDI RICE.

ARTIC = US believed that NORTH KOREA built the NUCFAC for SYRIA, + that SYRIA DID NOT INTEND TO USE THE OUTPUT FROM SAME FOR NICE = PEACABLE-LIKE PURPOSES, espec agz Israel.

[CONTROL AGENT MAXWELL "ITS NOT NICE-NESS" SMART here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-12-26 22:34  

#6  As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TEL AVIV = ISRAEL is repor refusing to formally apologize for the incident to Turkey.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-12-26 21:00  

#5  ION WAFF > THE DIVISION OF TURKEY HAS BEGUN |
[Enkripto.com] MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN KOURDIKOS.

ARTIC = Adoption of the Democratic plan for [Kurdish]autonomy by the Congress of the Democratic Society of Diyarbarkir MAY ULTIMATELY LEAD TO POL OR VIOLENT BREAKUP OF TURKEY + NEW FORMATION OF NEW KURD = KURDISTAN SOVEREIGN? STATE???

WAFF POSTER MAP = depicts FUTURE KURD "STATE" as being composed of large parts of EASTERN TURKEY, IRAQ, IRAN, + FORMER SOVIET -STANS; VARIOUS TURKISH POLITICOS REPOR SCRAMBLING TO STOP, HIDE SAME. TURK GOVT. POLS also warn of risk of GOVT-ORDERED TURKISH DOMESTIC MILITARY INTERVENTION TO PREVENT FORCED CREATION OF ANY KURDISH STATE WIDOUT TURKISH GOVT. CONSENT.

* Also from WAFF > FIRST TALIBAN FORCES' JOINT EXERCISES [military]: TURKEY, AFGHANISTAN, + PAKISTAN.

ARTIC = POSTER regards above Nations as "TALIBAN GOVTS/STATES", or else in NT SOON-WILL-BE-TALIBAN-OR-MILITANT-CONTROLLED-SOVEREIGN-GOVTS-STATES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-12-26 20:16  

#4  I'd like to see us draw down our assets in Turkey. Close Incirlik
Posted by: Frank G   2010-12-26 10:08  

#3  "A Little Peace", by Mel Brooks, from the movie To Be Or Not To Be.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-12-26 09:40  

#2  Let him make a proper submission, and---maybe---we will let Turkey live.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2010-12-26 06:59  

#1  Turkey wants to make peace with Israel

Easy enough. Just stop sending terrorists to Israel on missions designed to provoke.

They should have sunk the ship. It would have been a major score.
Posted by: gorb   2010-12-26 00:44  

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