Jerusalem – Israel Offers Help To Turkey

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     Turkish people take part in a rescue operation to salvage people from a collapsed building after an earthquake in Van, eastern Turkey, 23 October 2011. More than 1,000 people were likely to have been killed in an earthquake as powerful as the one that struck on 23 October in eastern Turkey, experts from the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute said at a press conference broadcast on Turkish TV. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was flying from Istanbul to the province of Van, the epicenter of the earthquake whose preliminary magnitude, according to the US Geological Survey, was 7.3. The Turkish observatory's chief, Mustafa Erdik, said the revised magnitude was 7.2, the Anatolia news agency reported. The quake took place at 1041 GMT, 19 kilometres north-east of Van, at a depth of 7 kilometres. The epicentre was the town of Tabanli in Van, near the border with Iran.  EPA/ANADOLU Jerusalem – Israel has offered to aid the Turkish government in any way it can after a massive earthquake shook the Turkish southeast, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday.

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    Following word of the massive jolt, Barak instructed the head of the Defense Ministry’s diplomatic-security bureau, Amos Gilad, to contact Turkish officials and offer them “any aid that they may need.”

    Haaretz.com


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    12 years ago

    IDIOTS!!! Let them rot. They try to destroy us & we bend over backwards to help them? Using “Zionist” resources?

    Paulie123
    Paulie123
    12 years ago

    Why offer to help that moronic country? Let them turn to their Iranian friends for help. Israel is dumb when it comes to these issues.

    VeyIzMir
    VeyIzMir
    12 years ago

    What a difference! Had tables been reversed Chas. Vshalom, Turkey would have been dancing in the streets from joy.

    Mee K’amcha Yisroel!

    iib001
    iib001
    12 years ago

    This may help in rebuilding our deplomatic relations with them

    nphatti
    nphatti
    12 years ago

    israel is fulfilling its role of “a light unto the nations”. Avrohom ovinu pleaded for the reshoim of sdom, we must follow his example.

    Proud-2-B-Orthodox
    Proud-2-B-Orthodox
    12 years ago

    Reports are that Turkish President “Gul informed Mr. Peres that his country is declining the offer for Israeli assistance, explaining local forces will deal with the natural disaster”

    ….Turkey would rather be stubborn than accept help in saving their own people.

    bigwheeel
    bigwheeel
    12 years ago

    Why doesn’t Erdogan of Turkey go to his newfound friends in Iran for help. A day didn’t go by that he didn’t threaten Israel. If he is so big let him fend for himself.

    victorg
    victorg
    12 years ago

    Obviously they will reject “Zionist” assistance!

    festayid
    festayid
    12 years ago

    I think this is good move trying to improve relations with an old ally,correct me if I’m wrong but I think Turkey sent Israel some aid in the caramel fire incident this past year

    grund
    grund
    12 years ago

    Our torah says if your enemy falls don’t be happy, but I am happy not because innocent people died, only because sometimes god shows us that he didn’t forget about us, 8 months ago kadaffi said its time for the pali’s to join the arab spring and over run israel he got two bullets and over run with a pickup truck, now the Turks for no understandable reason did they start a semi war with gods children and kaboom so I am happy, and no israel should not offer any help, let them die like pigs,

    Sociologist
    Sociologist
    12 years ago

    They will probably not accept assistance from Israel, but if they do it is excellent practice for the Home Front Command.

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    12 years ago

    Turkey has turned down Israel’s aid and so far I have not heard of other countires offering aid. I heard them all offering CONDOLENCES!!

    ALLAN
    ALLAN
    12 years ago

    It is more than proper for Israel to offer help…should the Turks turn that help away ..they then will be the ones who lose.