Israel has paid
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$20 million in compensation for the deadly storming of an aid ship in 2010, a key pillar of a deal signed in June to restore ties after a six-year rift.
The money has been transferred to the account of the Turkish justice ministry, a Turkish foreign ministry official told AFP on Friday, asking not to be named.
Relations between the former allies deteriorated with the rise of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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’s AKP to power, then broke off almost completely in 2010 following an Israeli naval raid on a Turkish flotilla trying to breach Israel’s blockade of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo Strip.
The raid, in which IDF commandos were attacked by activists on board, left 10 Turks dead and several soldiers maimed.
The compensation to the victims’ families was one of the three key demands by Turkey for the reconciliation deal with Israel, along with an apology and an easing of the blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gazoo Strip. An apology by Israel was issued three years ago.
While the blockade remains in place amid Israeli concerns that Hamas would import weapons and other materiel, Ankara has been able to resume delivery of humanitarian aid
to the Paleostinians through Israeli ports under the deal.The Turkish government is due to pass on the compensation money to the families of the victims in due course.
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And a final key element is the exchange of ambassadors, who were pulled out of Ankara and Tel Aviv in the wake of the crisis even though diplomatic ties were never fully severed.
The official said that a Turkish ambassador to Israel will be appointed "soon."
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ally, overwhelmingly Moslem Turkey, resume its previously tight relationship with Israel.