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The Grand Turk
Erdoğan slams Gaza flotilla organizers over objection to Israel deal
2016-07-01
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH),
... a Turkish charitable organization formed in the mid-1990s to help the Bosnian Muslims in various inappropriate ways during the troubles there, and has been involved thereafter in charitable works of no doubt a similar nature in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere. It is affiliated with the Moslem Brotherhood's international Union of the Good, and has links to Al Qaeda and other jihadi networks, the report of which precipitated a raid in 1997 on its headquarters which revealed all sorts of overstimulating toys ...
which organized the ill-fated 2010 flotilla to Gaza, for its objection to a recent agreement between Turkey and Israel and its decision to launch a flotilla in the first place.

“Did you ask the then-prime minister [himself] to carry such humanitarian aid from Turkey? We had already sent the necessary aid there to Gaza by that time and we are providing aid [now]. We have sent aid to Palestine and are sending. But while we were doing this, we did everything [within the bounds of diplomacy], not for a show of strength. We will continue to do so. We did these things not with a flourish of trumpets but with decency and propriety, and we are continuing to do this,” Erdoğan said on June 29 at an fast breaking iftar dinner organized for presidential palace personnel.

President Erdoğan previously stated that the İHH was an aid organization which risked death for their cause.

“What is this İHH? It is a relief organization which carries medicine and food to Gazan babies and risks death for this,” Erdoğan said in 2014.
IHH is particularly good at propaganda, and decent in terms of moving guns and ammo...
He also said the İHH had sent aid to a number of countries, adding that the “innocent and the poor all over the world gladdened” when they saw the organization.
The widows and orphans were particularly happy that IHH could help with the ammo...
Ankara and Tel Aviv signed a deal to normalize ties on June 28 after six years of strained relations. Israel’s security cabinet approved the deal on June 29. The deal is expected to be approved at the Turkish Parliament too.

Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Israel were suspended in 2010 after Israeli forces raided a convoy of aid ships headed by the Mavi Marmara that was attempting to break the blockade of Gaza, killing 10 Turkish activists.

The president also added that a ship loaded with 14,000 tons of humanitarian aid for Gaza will set out for the Ashdod port on July 1 from the southern port of Mersin.
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