Furkan Dogan: Perhaps the first time in its history that the IDF has killed a U.S. citizen( This is actually not true! The IKF is responsible for the murder of 34 US sailors in their attack on the USS Liberty in 1967)
So now we know why Israel refused to announce the dead and injured. The NY Times reports that one of the dead is a dual U.S.-Turkish citizen, Furkan Dogan:
One of the nine people killed in an Israeli commando raid on a flotilla of ships heading for Gaza this week was a United States citizen of Turkish descent, officials in Turkey and Washington said Thursday.
RelatedThe development added a new diplomatic complexity as Israel struggled to defuse rising international anger over its raid…
A senior Turkish official, who spoke in return for anonymity under government rules, said Turkish investigators examining the dead had found that one of them was an American of Turkish descent, but did not identify the American by name. A United States official in Washington confirmed that an American was among the dead
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