Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç called the Israeli attack “piracy,” while denying Israeli statements that some on the ships headed for the Gaza Strip were armed and had attacked Israeli soldiers.
Soli Özel from Bilgi University says the worst-case scenario has come to pass and will lead to a revision of Turkish-Israeli relations, which were already strained by Israeli actions in Palestine over the years.
A group of around 2,000 people gathered in İstanbul’s Taksim Square before noon carrying Turkish and Palestinian flags, chanting anti-Israeli slogans and calling on the Turkish government to take action against the disproportionate use of force by Israeli soldiers against civilians.
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