The Zionist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman described on Friday his country’s apology to Turkey as an "enormous mistake."
The Zionist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman described on Friday his country's apology to Turkey as an "enormous mistake," in reference to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to express "regret" in 2013 for a deadly incident in 2010 in which ten Turks were killed by a Zionist commandos on their Mvi Marmara flotilla.
Lieberman's statements followed Turkey's decision to pull out of an upcoming security conference in Munich, attributing its decision to the scheduled participation of a Zionist delegation.
"Ankara's decision proves once again how enormous a mistake it was to apologize to Turkey," the Zionist news website Ynet quoted Lieberman as saying.
"As long as the current [Turkish] leadership, headed by [President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan and his associates, controls Turkey, there is no chance to rehabilitate relations between the two countries," Lieberman was quoted as saying desperately.
"Turkey under Erdoğan is interested only in attacking and bashing Israel; and we must deal with it accordingly and stand up for Israeli interests," he added, hinting at the Zionist entity's right to attack the peaceful flotilla carrying human rights activists and food supply to lift the occupation blockade against Gaza.
Earlier Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoglu announced that his country would not be taking part in the Munich security conference due to the participation of a Zionist delegation.
In 2010, the Israeli navy raided the Mavi Marmara, the lead ship in a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla, killing ten Turkish activists, including one US-Turkish dual national.