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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue May 15, 2018, 10:11 AM May 2018

Turkey expels Israel ambassador amid international outrage over Gaza killings

Source: The Washington Post



By Kareem Fahim May 15 at 9:37 AM

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s government on Tuesday expelled the Israeli ambassador in response to Israel’s killing of dozens of Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said.

The Turkish decision marked one of the strongest international responses after Monday’s deadly confrontations along the border fence separating Israel and Gaza, which has been under Israeli blockade for more than a decade. At least 60 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured, Gaza officials said.

Turkey maintains diplomatic ties with Israel, but relations have been severely strained in recent years over issues including the treatment of Palestinians.

In 2010, Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish-operated passenger vessel, the Mavi Marmara, that was on a course to breach Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. The raid killed nine activists.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkey-expels-israel-ambassador-amid-international-outrage-over-gaza-killings/2018/05/15/29f58996-5842-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html

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Turkey expels Israel ambassador amid international outrage over Gaza killings (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
Is there even the remotest possibility that the Knesset will order a 'no-confidence' vote Aristus May 2018 #1
If only they had any moral authority whatsoever RandomAccess May 2018 #2
we should do likewise luc mont May 2018 #3
Trump should do what? oberliner May 2018 #4
Did I say 'Trump"? luc mont May 2018 #5
Oh, I thought you were saying the US should expel it's ambassador to Israel oberliner May 2018 #6
No country would let a hostile neighbor breech their border wall.. EX500rider May 2018 #7

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
1. Is there even the remotest possibility that the Knesset will order a 'no-confidence' vote
Tue May 15, 2018, 10:50 AM
May 2018

against Netanyahu?

EX500rider

(10,532 posts)
7. No country would let a hostile neighbor breech their border wall..
Tue May 15, 2018, 03:21 PM
May 2018

...so they can attempt to kidnap and kill their citizens.

These weren't peaceful protesters who were shot at but Hamas operatives in the crowd who were attempting to breach the wall with explosives and taking shots at the border guards.

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