“Humanity attacked first.”
Turkish hackers attacked Likud’s, Israel’s governing party, website. A list of Turkish activists wounded in the attacked here.
Israel deports flotilla activists
Israel?s policies in Gaza and the West Bank are an attempt to break Palestinians? resistance, says author and activist Jeff Halper
Turkish Funds Helped Group Test Blockade of Gaza
New York Times
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and MICHAEL SLACKMAN ISTANBUL ? Since 2007, a small group of hard-core activists has repeatedly tried to sail cargo-laden ships into
El Al, Atlasjet halt start of flights to Istanbul
Ynetnews
Israeli flag carrier El Al and Turkey’s Atlasjet Airlines said on Tuesday they have put off the start of flights between Tel Aviv and Istanbul in the wake
Israelis pointed guns at us, says skipper
Independent Online
By Simon Cameron-Moore Istanbul – An Israeli warship threatened to sink Captain Huseyin Tokalak’s ship before young commandos boarded the Turkish-flagged
The Israeli Attack on Humanitarian Aid Ships: An EU Perspective
Seeing Through the Storm Clouds
A friend forwarded an interesting post from a Lebanese political blog called Qifa Nakbi. The post takes a look at how the Gaza flotilla debacle fits into Turkey’s regional and global ambitions. You can read it here.
Israel risks losing ‘sole friend’ in Mideast, Turkish PM Erdoğan tells Obama
Israel orders diplomats’ families out of Turkey
Turkey maintains push for sanctions
Brazil-Turkey and Iran: a new global balance , Mariano Aguirre
The balance of power that has reigned in the international system since the end of the cold war is undergoing profound shifts. Iran?s agreement with Brazil and Turkey on 17 May 2010 over the treatment of its enriched uranium, and the sanctions that the United States wishes (through a United Nations resolution) to impose on the Tehran government over Iran?s nuclear programme, reveal this system?s deep cracks. The change can be measured in the way that (as an editorial in Le Monde noted) discussion of issues such as nuclear proliferation, which used to be confined to permanent members of the UN Security Council, now finds countries from the global south playing a key role (see Nucléaire iranien: le Sud émergent veut sa place dans la négociation, Le Monde, 19 May 2010).
When Friends Fall Out
After Israel Raids Flotilla, U.S. Is Torn Between Allies
The end of an era by Gökhan Bacık
A black day in the history of humanity by Ahmet Davutoğlu
BÜLENT KENEŞ – Rogue State
BERİL DEDEOĞLU – Helping Gaza
ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ – Barbaric acts of Israeli soldiers, Holocaust victims, anti-Semitism!
AMANDA PAUL – Turkey as viewed from the Middle East
FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK – How to respond to the Israeli atrocity?
Who The Hell Does Israel Think She is?
[Originally published in Hurriyet Daily News] Two days ago, Israeli forces attacked a humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters. The whole purpose of the activists on the raided Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, and several others around it, were to bring aid and supplies, including playgrounds for children, to Gaza. They paid the price by being the targets of Israeli machine guns. At least 10 unarmed civilians, most of whom are Turks, were killed. Dozens of others were injured. There is no need to mince words in the face of this atrocity: Israel has committed piracy, barbarism and state terrorism. Beyond doing all these shamelessly, Israeli spokesmen have also lied shamelessly. One of them, Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon, was doing exactly that when he portrayed the ship, and the whole aid flotilla, as full of people “well-known for their ties with global Jihad, Al-Qaeda and Hamas.”
Criticism on Military Partnership between Turkey and Israel
MAIN FOCUS: Turkey is turning its back on Europe | 02/06/2010
Turkey has harshly criticised Israel for its military assault on a flotilla carrying international aid in the Mediterranean. The Turkish reaction is based on double standards, the press writes, and fears that the country is turning away from Europe and the West.