Ankara – Turkey Says Israel Paid Compensation To Families Of 2010 Flotilla Raid Victims

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    FILE - A frame grab from a video released by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) shows what the IDF says is a pro-Palestinian activist hitting Israeli soldiers with a club-like object upon the arrival of Israeli forces to a Gaza-bound ship May 31, 2010. REUTERS/Handout/IDF Ankara – Israel has paid total compensation of $20 million to the families of the victims of an Israeli raid on a Turkish aid flotilla that killed 10 people in 2010, Turkish media quoted Turkey’s Finance Minister Naci Agbal as saying on Friday.

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    The payment, which will be divided among the 10 families, comes some nine months after Israel, which had already offered apologies for the raid – one of Ankara’s conditions for rapprochement – agreed to pay the families of those killed.

    “Compensation has been paid to the families of those who lost their lives during the Mavi Marmara attack,” Turkish broadcasters quoted Agbal as saying.

    Relations between Israel and Turkey broke down in 2010 when Turkish pro-Palestinian activists were killed by Israeli commandos enforcing a naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The soldiers raided a ship, the Mavi Marmara, leading a flotilla towards the Islamist Hamas-run Palestinian territory.

    In June 2016 however, the two countries said they would normalize relations – a rapprochement driven by the prospect of lucrative Mediterranean gas deals as well as mutual fears over security risks in the Middle East.

    Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan named a new ambassador to Israel in November last year, reciprocating a move by the Israelis, in a move toward restoring diplomatic ties between the once-close allies.


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    6 years ago

    this money should have gone to VICTIMS of ARAB TERROR in Eretz Yisroel

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    6 years ago

    Who did Turkey pay $$$ to?

    hernoor
    hernoor
    6 years ago

    Can you get more dumb than this? This is encouraging terror. So the PA has to stop paying money to terrorists families but Israel does pay for terrorists families?!

    6 years ago

    To #1 & #3 – there really isn’t much more to add. Except they don’t “like” us anymore than they did.