Turkey recalls envoy, calls UN meeting on Israel

[imurhuckleberry]

Source: Yahoo News/AFP

ANKARA (AFP) – Turkey recalled its envoy from Tel Aviv Monday and urged an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after a deadly Israeli raid on aid ships, including Turkish vessels, bound for Gaza.

"Our ambassador to Israel has been recalled to Ankara," Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told a press conference.

He said plans for three joint military exercises with Israel had been scrapped and that Turkey had called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, where it holds a non-permanent seat.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was already heading to New York, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, currently in Chile, would cut short his visit and return home Tuesday, he added.

Many of the reported 19 passengers killed in the operation were Turks, according to pro-Palestinian activists involved in the campaign to break the blockade of Gaza, whose bloody end marked a new low in the once-flourishing Turkish-Israeli ties.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100531/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazademoaidturkeydiplomacy

[madrchsod]

1. nothing will be done but add another sanction to the list

israel could care less about what other countries think. as long as our elected officials keep our money flowing to israel it`s business as usual.

[imurhuckleberry]

2. The following press release was just sent out by Israeli group Gush Shalom:

http://antonyloewenstein.com/2010/05/31/gush-shalom-condemns-gaza-flotilla-massacre/

[Karenina]

4. Thanks for that!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[ensho]

3. good on Turkey - may they stand firm

nt