A lawyer for a Turkish Islamic group said Friday he had submitted to prosecutors a list of Zionist soldiers involved in a deadly raid on a flotilla sent by the group to break the Gaza blockade.
| Ramazan Ariturk, lawyer for IHH |
A lawyer for a Turkish Islamic group said Friday he had submitted to prosecutors a list of Zionist soldiers involved in a deadly raid on a flotilla sent by the group to break the Gaza blockade.
"We have presented a list of Israeli soldiers who gave the order for and who were involved in the attack on the Turkish flotilla to the Istanbul prosecutor's office," Ramazan Ariturk, the lawyer for the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) which organized the ill-fated flotilla, told media sources.
"Currently we are waiting for the prosecutor's office to issue an order for arrest," he said.
Eight Turks and one Turkish-American were killed when Zionist commandos boarded the flag ship of the six-boat flotilla on May 31 last year, to stop it from entering medical and food supplies into Gaza, breaking the Israeli blockade.
A UN report accused Israel of acting with "excessive force" in the operation.
But it endorsed the legality of Zionist naval blockade of Gaza, which the Jewish entity says is necessary to prevent the Islamic Movement Hamas from obtaining weapons.
The lawyer said the list was based on the testimonies of Israeli soldiers included in the Zionist report on the incident submitted to the United Nations.
"Some Israeli soldiers who regretted what happened reached me and gave some of the soldiers’ identities", added the lawyer, explaining that those soldiers were not involved in the clash but merely observers.
Ariturk declined to give the exact number of Israeli soldiers who were included in the list but said there were more than 10.
The killing of nine people on the Mavi Marmara, the lead ship of the convoy taking aid to Gaza, sparked widespread outrage and further deteriorated Turkey's ties with the Usurped entity.
Ankara last week expelled the Israeli ambassador and suspended all military agreements with ‘Israel’, in respond to this entity's refusal to apologize for the killings.
