Israel offers compensation to Mavi Marmara flotilla raid victims

£4m paid to Jewish foundation in Turkey, which will distribute the money to the victims and their families


The familis of activists who were killed in the raid on the Mavi Marmara have been offered compensation. Photograph: Kate Geraghty/Sydney Morning Herald/Getty

The Israeli government has offered £4m in compensation to the families of Turkish activists killed by Israeli commandos who stormed a ship taking part in an aid flotilla in May 2010, according to a lawyer representing the victims.

Ramzan Ariturk said the money would have been paid to a Jewish foundation in Turkey for distribution and would be followed by a statement of "regret" for the raid by the Israeli government on the Mavi Marmara, which was bound for the Gaza Strip.

The lawyer, one of several representing 465 victims and relatives of the dead and injured on board the Mavi Marmara, said that the Israeli government had made a proposal to him through an intermediary foreign ambassador in Ankara.

Turkey cooled diplomatic relations with Israel after nine of its citizens were shot dead by Israeli commandos who landed on the Mavi Marmara to prevent its passage to Gaza. Protesters on the ship repelled the first wave of lightly armed commandos, but then the Israeli soldiers used lethal force against the unarmed passengers to end their resistance.

Ariturk said he told the ambassador a month ago that he did not think the offer was appropriate or moral. "I also discussed the issue with the victims and their friends and they also stated that they could not accept this," he said.

He declined to disclose the nationality of the intermediary or the name of the Jewish organisation that would distribute the compensation but said the Turkish foreign ministry agreed with his decision, saying Israel should have contacted it directly.

According to sources in the Turkish foreign ministry who spoke to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, Israel had not presented the offer to them directly. The source said that the principle of damages was accepted by Turkey but the obstacle was Israel's admission of guilt which Turkey insists upon.

"Israel is opposed to declaring publicly that it apologises and Turkey is not prepared to accept a wording of regret that does not include taking responsibility, that is required in an expression of apology," the sources said.

Mark Regev, the spokesman for Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, declined to comment.

On Wednesday an Istanbul prosecutor submitted an indictment seeking life sentences for four former Israeli military commanders in connection with the raid, including the chief of general staff at the time.

The United Nations report on the raid last September concluded that Israel had used unreasonable force but that its blockade of Gaza was legal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/24/israel-compensation-mavi-marmara-flotilla



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someone else shared this exact news i believe maybe from another source.

This is apparently being done under the carpet. Maybe to silence the people. They are trying to go around the court ?

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This is an ultimate win for the conquers.... congratulations.. Hahahaha.....Now 5 bucks goes to an idiotic response below this.

Gimme my 5 bucks

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The United Nations report on the raid last September concluded that Israel its blockade of Gaza was LEGAL.
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Thank you islamist terrorists to give Israel a legal blockade


-Atam Sen Kalkta Ben YATAM

I"ll mail you 10 bucks if you throw in your sister?

If she looks anything like my sister I'm getting ripped off.

Don't have sister. Sorry to spoil your fantasies

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Most probably, Israel wants to recover the relations with such moves that will cause gaining Turkey's sympathy.

Desperate Gayreeks couldn't be a strategic ally of Israel which will be an alternative of Turkey in region ?

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Good move by Israel, now hopefully within 2 3 years relations can be restored to what it was pre 2009.

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I'm not like everybody else

"Most probably, Israel wants to recover the relations with such moves that will cause gaining Turkey's sympathy.

Desperate Gayreeks couldn't be a strategic ally of Israel which will be an alternative of Turkey in region ?"

Money talks....or better money coming from oillllllllll. Cyprus Greek take a oil bath in the future, LoL.






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Turkish planing of indigenous projects



April/21/2012
Turkey is not like China. Turkey is, just like Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal.
www.hurriyetdailynews.com