Turkish PM Erdogan threatens Gaza visit

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan will visit the Gaza Strip if Israel does not apologize for its 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla, Turkish media reported.

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan will visit the Gaza Strip if Israel does not apologize for its 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla, Turkish media reported. "Erdogan's visit to Gaza will spark a new crisis in Turkish-Israeli relations," Turkey's Radical paper said, referring to diplomatic sources. Turkish PM Erdogan threatens Gaza visit Relations between Israel and Turkey, which was previously Israel's closest ally in the region, have been on the rocks since last year when Israeli commandos raided the Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Erdogan has said he will visit Gaza, if the "conditions are right." The Jerusalem Post reports that Erdogan was originally planning to visit Gaza on July 21 via Egypt's Rafah crossing, but decided to delay his trip hoping to put pressure on Israel to issue an apology before the upcoming release of the UN’s Palmer Commission report on August 1. The Palmer Comission was established to investigate the circumstances of the IDF raid on Gaza flotilla ship Mavi Marmara in May 2010. The 90-page report is widely expected to say that Israel was within its legal rights in clamping a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, but that it used excessive force against the Mavi Marmara. Nine Turks were killed when IDF commandos boarded the ship in an effort to implement the blockade, and were attacked by passengers. Recep Erdogan (Beta/AP)

Turkish PM Erdogan threatens Gaza visit

Relations between Israel and Turkey, which was previously Israel's closest ally in the region, have been on the rocks since last year when Israeli commandos raided the Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

Erdogan has said he will visit Gaza, if the "conditions are right."

The Jerusalem Post reports that Erdogan was originally planning to visit Gaza on July 21 via Egypt's Rafah crossing, but decided to delay his trip hoping to put pressure on Israel to issue an apology before the upcoming release of the UN’s Palmer Commission report on August 1.

The Palmer Comission was established to investigate the circumstances of the IDF raid on Gaza flotilla ship Mavi Marmara in May 2010.

The 90-page report is widely expected to say that Israel was within its legal rights in clamping a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, but that it used excessive force against the Mavi Marmara.

Nine Turks were killed when IDF commandos boarded the ship in an effort to implement the blockade, and were attacked by passengers.

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