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2012-05-23 The Grand Turk

Turkey Indicts 4 Former IDF Commanders Over Mavi Marmara

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Posted by tipper 2012-05-23 12:14|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

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The indictment suggests that should the four arrive in Turkey they would be immediately arrested. Sabah said that Turkey is demanding 10 life sentences (and not nine, for the nine activists who were killed) because one of the victims has been in a coma since the raid.

In the indictment's third part which details Turkey's relations with the Jews throughout history, the prosecutor notes that the Ottomans took in the Jews that were expelled from Spain and that Turkey had accepted Jews during the Holocaust and saved some 20,000 Jews from death camps by issuing them passports. Based on this he concluded that Israel owes its very existence to the Turkish republic.

Posted by tipper 2012-05-23 16:41|| 2012-05-23 16:41|| Front Page Top

#2 "Based on this he concluded that Israel owes its very existence to the Turkish republic.

Turkey - a legend in its own mind.

Posted by Barbara 2012-05-23 18:34|| 2012-05-23 18:34|| Front Page Top

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