Turkey Alliance With Israel May Rupture on Gaza Raid
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Israel’s already strained relationship with Turkey may be another casualty of its navy’s raid on a Turkish-flagged aid ship headed for Gaza that left nine dead.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan today called the raid a “bloody massacre” and said relations with Israel and Turkey wouldn’t be the same. He demanded the immediate release of Turkish citizens being detained by Israel and said the crisis would deepen the longer they were held. Erdogan also demanded an end to Israel’s embargo on Gaza.