25-11-2024 12:25 PM Jerusalem Timing

Erdogan Says No Thaw with Israel without Apology for Boat Raid

Erdogan Says No Thaw with Israel without Apology for Boat Raid

Turkish Prime Minister still convinced Israeli enemy will apologize for boat raid.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey will not begin to restore relations with the Israeli enemy unless it apologizes for its "savage attack" on a Turkish protest vessel.
  
"Israel will apologize. And Israel will have to pay compensation. And then we can start negotiating," Erdogan told France 24 television, according to the Paris-based news network's translation from the Turkish.
  
"Let me say clearly that it is Israel who is responsible for the current state of our mutual relationship, and nobody should interpret it in another way," Erdogan said in the France 24 interview.
  
"How can you forgive attacks from the air and from the sea against a ship sailing under the Turkish flag and carrying passengers from all around the world who wanted to help other people?"
  
"I consider it a savage attack to act like this in international waters. There is no other explanation to this," he said. "Did they find any weapons? No. And they attacked these defenseless people from the air and from the sea. So there is no excuse whatsoever for such an attitude," he declared.