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ISRAELI PREMIER APOLOGIZED TO TURKISH COUNTERPART
20:59, 22 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 22, ARMENPRESS: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
of Israel on Friday apologized in a personal phone call to Turkey's
prime minister for a deadly commando raid on a Turkish ship in 2010,
in a sudden reconciliation between the two countries that was partly
brokered by President Obama during his visit to Israel this week,
according to Israeli, Turkish and American officials.
As reports Armenpress, referring to NYT, in the call, Mr. Netanyahu
expressed regret for the raid, which took place as Israeli troops
were enforcing an aid embargo on Gaza, and offered compensation,
Turkish and Israeli officials said. And after years of holding out
for a public apology for the deaths, the Turkish Prime Minister,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accepted Israel's gesture in the phone call.
Afterward, officials from both countries said that diplomatic relations
had been fully restored and that ambassadors would be reinstated.
In a statement, Mr. Obama welcomed the call, saying, "the United
States deeply values our relationships with both Turkey and Israel,
and we attach great importance to the restoration of positive relations
between them, in order to advance regional peace and security." At
one point, Mr. Obama, just before leaving for Jordan, got on the phone
with both leaders as they spoke, one senior American official said.
20:59, 22 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 22, ARMENPRESS: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
of Israel on Friday apologized in a personal phone call to Turkey's
prime minister for a deadly commando raid on a Turkish ship in 2010,
in a sudden reconciliation between the two countries that was partly
brokered by President Obama during his visit to Israel this week,
according to Israeli, Turkish and American officials.
As reports Armenpress, referring to NYT, in the call, Mr. Netanyahu
expressed regret for the raid, which took place as Israeli troops
were enforcing an aid embargo on Gaza, and offered compensation,
Turkish and Israeli officials said. And after years of holding out
for a public apology for the deaths, the Turkish Prime Minister,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accepted Israel's gesture in the phone call.
Afterward, officials from both countries said that diplomatic relations
had been fully restored and that ambassadors would be reinstated.
In a statement, Mr. Obama welcomed the call, saying, "the United
States deeply values our relationships with both Turkey and Israel,
and we attach great importance to the restoration of positive relations
between them, in order to advance regional peace and security." At
one point, Mr. Obama, just before leaving for Jordan, got on the phone
with both leaders as they spoke, one senior American official said.