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ANALYST: SHOULD ISRAEL DEMAND ANKARA TO RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE?
February 12, 2014 - 18:06 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Israeli-Turkish ties became practically frozen after
the 2010 incident with Mavi Marmara, aboard which Israel's raid on
a Gaza-bound flotilla resulted in the deaths of 9 Turkish activists
and injuries of Israeli soldiers.
As Israeli political analyst Alexander Tsinker toldPanARMENIAN.Net
immediately after the incident, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan demanded for apologies and compensation from Jerusalem.
Despite the international investigation committee's announcing Israeli
actions to have been legally acceptable, the country's Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu offered official apologies, accepted by Erdogan.
"Though the issue of compensations hasn't been quite finalized,
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a local television
station that Israel and Turkey are closer than ever to normalizing
relations. He noted that there has recently been momentum and a new
approach in compensation talks and that most of the differences have
been recently removed in these discussions," the analyst said.
"It would only be logical to infer that a rapprochement is in progress;
yet, several days ago, Erdogan demanded a "written protocol" from
Israel pledging it will lift the siege over the Gaza Strip as a
condition for signing a reconciliation agreement and normalizing
relations between the two countries.
The question here is why Turkey would meddle with the internal
Palestinian-Israeli problems. According to the Turkish principle
for settlement of bilateral ties, Israel should demand the Erdogan
government for an agreement to form an independent Kurdish republic
in the eastern Turkey, and, above all, written recognition of the
1915 Armenian Genocide," the analyst stressed.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/175819/
February 12, 2014 - 18:06 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Israeli-Turkish ties became practically frozen after
the 2010 incident with Mavi Marmara, aboard which Israel's raid on
a Gaza-bound flotilla resulted in the deaths of 9 Turkish activists
and injuries of Israeli soldiers.
As Israeli political analyst Alexander Tsinker toldPanARMENIAN.Net
immediately after the incident, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan demanded for apologies and compensation from Jerusalem.
Despite the international investigation committee's announcing Israeli
actions to have been legally acceptable, the country's Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu offered official apologies, accepted by Erdogan.
"Though the issue of compensations hasn't been quite finalized,
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a local television
station that Israel and Turkey are closer than ever to normalizing
relations. He noted that there has recently been momentum and a new
approach in compensation talks and that most of the differences have
been recently removed in these discussions," the analyst said.
"It would only be logical to infer that a rapprochement is in progress;
yet, several days ago, Erdogan demanded a "written protocol" from
Israel pledging it will lift the siege over the Gaza Strip as a
condition for signing a reconciliation agreement and normalizing
relations between the two countries.
The question here is why Turkey would meddle with the internal
Palestinian-Israeli problems. According to the Turkish principle
for settlement of bilateral ties, Israel should demand the Erdogan
government for an agreement to form an independent Kurdish republic
in the eastern Turkey, and, above all, written recognition of the
1915 Armenian Genocide," the analyst stressed.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/175819/