Turkey excluded Israel from exercise over Gaza attack: PM

Turkey excluded Israel from participating in a NATO war exercise due to the public's concerns over Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, Erdogan said.

Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:37



Turkey excluded Israel from participating in a NATO war exercise this week due to the public's concerns over Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip early this year, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said.

"We listened to the voice of our people," Erdogan told Al Arabiya television in an interview. His comments were confirmed by a Turkish government spokesman on Wednesday.

Turkey's ties with Israel have been strained over Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip in December and January that killed nearly 1500 Palestinians, a third of them were children.

However, Washington got uneasy with the choice.

US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley described the decision to exclude Israel from the drill as "inappropriate".

Erdogan also publicly walked out on Israeli President Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in January.

A U.N. report last month found that Israel "punished and terrorised" civilians in Gaza in a disproportionate attack in its three-week war on the territory earlier
this year.

Israeli forces deliberately attacked civilians, failed to take precautions to minimize loss of civilian life and cited strong evidence Israeli forces committed "grave breaches" of the Geneva Convention, the 575-page report noted.

Israel has rejected a cooperation with the Goldstone team or had not allowed it onto its territory.

The firing of white phosphorous shells and the use of high explosive artillery shells were listed as "violations of humanitarian law."

The report also said UN Security Council should refers Israel - If it fails to probe crimes properly- to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor in The Hague within six months.

Nearly 1,5000 Palestinians - about a third of them women and children - were killed in the Israeli offensive while thirteen Israelis died.



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it is interesting to note that is turkey alone that is raising the plight of the palestians when the vastmajority of arab governments are mute. even in UN and at the davos (the global debate) the issue was raised by turkish leader..


the question is why now?

- is to again reclaim it;s true destiny as the leader of the muslim world in the middle east?
- to spat israel for some confidential incidence?
- ????

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Turks are unpredictable mothafvckers. They tend to just snap sometimes, like Erdogan's pissing everyone in the face and leaving the summit in Davos. But that's nothing. Someone at a UN meeting dropped a fork once and the Turk diplomat just flipped to the noise and cut the throats of everyone at the table. We're fvcking insane.

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^^ pscyhiatrists must be doing a roaring business in turkey eh?




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