Turkey outs Israeli diplomat on Gaza flotilla line up
Published by Julia Volkovah under flotilla to gaza, gaza flotilla, the deal of the day on 5:52 AMTurkey is to push out the Israeli ambassador after facts appeared of a UN report into last year's lethal attack on a Gaza-bound flotilla.
Authorities in Ankara said it was also postponing all outstanding military contracts with Israel.
Ahmet Davutoglu, Foreign Minister of Turkey said some of the stories outcomes, revealed to the New York Times, were intolerable.
Turkey would like Israel to express regret over the attack but it has rejected to do so.
Nine Turkish pro-Palestinian workers were killed when Israeli forces tempest the flotilla in May 2010.
The relations between Turkey and Israel have been suspended since last year's flotilla mishap, but now they are being reduced to the lowest possible level.
A seeped out copy of the United Nations report says Israeli forces did use unnecessary force when they interrupted the Turkish-led flotilla endeavoring to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.
But the report also findings that Israel's naval blockade of Gaza is legal - a move that has annoyed Turkey.
Turkey declared the eviction of the Israeli ambassador hours before the report was likely to be publicized.
Turkish President Abullah Gul said the report was "invalid for us", in broadcasted comments reported by AFP.
In the copy undisclosed to the New York Times, the report says: "Turkey and Israel should start again full diplomatic relations, restoring their relationship in the interests of solidity in the Middle East and international peace and safekeeping".
Turkey evoked its ambassador to Israel in a while after the attack and suspended several military contracts.
"Turkey-Israel diplomatic relations have been declined to a second secretary level," Mr. Davutoglu told a news conference on Friday.
"All staffs above the second secretary level will come back to their countries by Wednesday at
the newest."
The publication of the UN report has been postponed many times to hearten understanding between Israel and Turkey, but that has not occurred.
The report says: "Israel's conclusion to board the vessels with such extensive force at a large distance from the blockade zone and with no final warning instantly earlier to the boarding was too much and irrational."
But the UN panel of investigation, chaired by former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, further said that the naval obstruction was lawful and proper because it was objective at putting off weapons being brought in by sea.
According to The New York Times while Israel thinks justified by the report, Turkey is disturbed with the decision on the authorized status of Israel's naval blockade.