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PM ERDOGAN DECRIES ISRAEL AS 'SPOILED BOY'
Hurriyet
Sept 6 2011
Turkey
Turkish PM Erdogan's harsh statements, in which he calls Israel a
'spoiled boy,' cause financial panic on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Visiting Spanish PM Zapatero says the world needs to take a stand on
recent developments during a conference with Erdogan. AA photo
Turkish Navy ships will "show up" more frequently in the East
Mediterranean as part of measures against Israel, Turkey's prime
minister has said, slamming the Jewish state as the "spoiled boy"
of the region.
"The eastern Mediterranean Sea is not a region unfamiliar to us,"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday in his first public comments on
measures that Turkey was taking over Israel's failure to apologize
for killing nine Turks on a Gaza-bound aid ship last year.
Turkish forces stationed at naval bases in Aksaz and İskenderun are
capable of patrolling regional waters and escorting civilian ships
in the Mediterranean, Erdogan told reporters.
"Certainly, our ships will show up more frequently in these waters. We
will see them [there] very frequently," he said. "So far, Israel has
always played the role of a spoiled boy in the face of U.N.
resolutions concerning Israel, thinking that it would carry on with
this role."
On Friday Ankara last said it would take action to ensure the safety
of maritime navigation in the East Mediterranean as part of measures
against Israel that included also the downgrading of diplomatic ties
to the second-secretary level.
The departure deadline for the Israeli diplomats concerned by the
decision expires Wednesday.
Erdogan said Turkey was "totally suspending" military ties and defense
industry cooperation with Israel, warning of "various other sanctions"
depending on developments in the future.
He initially said that trade with the Jewish state had also been
frozen, but his office later clarified that the prime minister meant
"commercial ties in the defense industry sector."
Also Tuesday, Erdogan held a 1.5-hour meeting with Chief of General
Staff Gen. Necdet Ozel to discuss ways of protecting maritime
navigation in the Mediterranean, the NTV said.
Israel's deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara ferry in international waters
on May 31, 2010 was an example "of savagery and state terror," Erdogan
said, stressing that Turkey was determined to protect the rights of
its citizens.
A report on the raid, penned at the end of a U.N. panel inquiry and
leaked to the media last week, "is of no value to us," Erdogan said,
echoing Ankara's disappointment over the document.
The report declared that Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip was lawful
and justified by attacks on Israel by militants in Gaza, even though
it found that the troops used "excessive and unreasonable" force.
Hurriyet
Sept 6 2011
Turkey
Turkish PM Erdogan's harsh statements, in which he calls Israel a
'spoiled boy,' cause financial panic on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Visiting Spanish PM Zapatero says the world needs to take a stand on
recent developments during a conference with Erdogan. AA photo
Turkish Navy ships will "show up" more frequently in the East
Mediterranean as part of measures against Israel, Turkey's prime
minister has said, slamming the Jewish state as the "spoiled boy"
of the region.
"The eastern Mediterranean Sea is not a region unfamiliar to us,"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday in his first public comments on
measures that Turkey was taking over Israel's failure to apologize
for killing nine Turks on a Gaza-bound aid ship last year.
Turkish forces stationed at naval bases in Aksaz and İskenderun are
capable of patrolling regional waters and escorting civilian ships
in the Mediterranean, Erdogan told reporters.
"Certainly, our ships will show up more frequently in these waters. We
will see them [there] very frequently," he said. "So far, Israel has
always played the role of a spoiled boy in the face of U.N.
resolutions concerning Israel, thinking that it would carry on with
this role."
On Friday Ankara last said it would take action to ensure the safety
of maritime navigation in the East Mediterranean as part of measures
against Israel that included also the downgrading of diplomatic ties
to the second-secretary level.
The departure deadline for the Israeli diplomats concerned by the
decision expires Wednesday.
Erdogan said Turkey was "totally suspending" military ties and defense
industry cooperation with Israel, warning of "various other sanctions"
depending on developments in the future.
He initially said that trade with the Jewish state had also been
frozen, but his office later clarified that the prime minister meant
"commercial ties in the defense industry sector."
Also Tuesday, Erdogan held a 1.5-hour meeting with Chief of General
Staff Gen. Necdet Ozel to discuss ways of protecting maritime
navigation in the Mediterranean, the NTV said.
Israel's deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara ferry in international waters
on May 31, 2010 was an example "of savagery and state terror," Erdogan
said, stressing that Turkey was determined to protect the rights of
its citizens.
A report on the raid, penned at the end of a U.N. panel inquiry and
leaked to the media last week, "is of no value to us," Erdogan said,
echoing Ankara's disappointment over the document.
The report declared that Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip was lawful
and justified by attacks on Israel by militants in Gaza, even though
it found that the troops used "excessive and unreasonable" force.