Report: Turkey closes airspace to Israel following Gaza flotilla raid

[demoleft]

Source: ap

Turkey withdrew its ambassador and canceled joint military drills with Israel in response to the deadly raid May 31 that left nine dead.
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On Sunday, Israeli media reported that Turkey had not allowed a plane carrying Israeli military officers, en route to a tour of memorial sites in Auschwitz, Poland, to fly over Turkish airspace.
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According to reports, the Israel Defense Forces refrained from responding officially to the event so not to exacerbate the rift in relations.

Turkish aviation officials were not immediately available for comment.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-turkey-closes-airspace-to-israel-following-gaza-flotilla-raid-1.298728

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this follows a series of initiatives from other countries. the attempt to bury the flotilla crime under heaps of silence will fail.

[aquart]

1. Genocidal Turkey takes a stand against Israel. Big whup.

They also took delivery on those Israeli drones they plan to use against the Kurds, didn't they?

[demoleft]

2. this time it is turkey. previously was norway. israel must answer for the flotilla crime. period.n/t

[Chulanowa]

3. I like how it's suddenly a genocide

Five months ago you would have been parroting the official Israeli apologetics excusing the Turks and justifying their genocide against the Armenians.

If this is what it takes to get you and those like you to stop being deniers, hey, silver linings and all.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Gotta love how every enemy of Israel gets labelled "genocidal".

The Ottoman Turks committed genocide. The Republic of Turkey's crime is it will not admit it. Like some in Israel will not admit that measures taken against some in that country are sometimes...extreme. And modern Israel embraces (and supplies weapons to) the PKK because it hopes to destabilize Iraq, Iran and Syria, not because it actually cares about the Kurds. Note how quickly Olmert disavowed the Kurds when the U.S. told him to back off.

Name calling is for people who do not have a coherent argument.

Here is my recent post on the subject of those who cry crocodile tears for political gain.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/487

Keep posting the words "Kurds" and "genocide" and maybe those dead folks on the flotilla will rise from the grave.

[gerenimox]

5. Yes, Turkey takes a stand against the genocidal Israel

you think Israel will get away with the Palestinian genocide?

[demoleft]

6. UPDATE, Tuesday: Turkey twice barred Israel from airspace: diplomat

AFP - Turkey has twice refused Israeli military planes permission to use its airspace after the deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships in May, a diplomat said Tuesday, but denied there was a blanket ban.

"There have been two flights in request and we refused both," the diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said.

He underlined that the two incidents did not indicate a general ban on Israeli overflights, and added that future requests would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

"This doesn't mean that we will refuse them in the future but we are taking them one by one," the diplomat said.

afp, http://www.france24.com/en/20100629-turkey-twice-barred-israel-airspace-diplomat