Turkey's Flotilla: What Was It Really About?

[Mosby]

Five years ago this week, on May 31, 2010, a Turkish flotilla with hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists aboard sailed toward the Gaza Strip in order to break Israel's naval blockade. Israel had established the blockade to prevent weapons from being shipped to the Hamas terrorist organization, which rules Gaza and is openly committed to Israel's destruction.

Before reaching the Gazan shore, however, the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, was boarded by Israeli commandos, and 10 activists were killed in what would become the worst ever diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Israel. Later, a UN-sponsored probe into the Mavi Marmara incident would accuse Israeli soldiers of excessive use of force, but declare Israel's blockade as legal.

With the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish government wanted to provoke Israel and cause an "incident." Then the whole world learned "who benefitted."


http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5884/turkey-flotilla

[Scootaloo]

1. Oh, it's Gatestone

Let me guess, you "have no idea who they are" right?

[Mosby]

2. the author is a turkish journalist who works for a turkish paper.

[Scootaloo]

4. That's nice. He's also a fellow at Daniel Pipes'e Middle East Forum

[shenmue]

3. A look at this picture will explain it

Look at the flag on the right. Yep.

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