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August 17, 2011

NYT: Israel says it won’t apologize to Turkey for deadly flotilla raid

by Isabel Kershner
The New York Times

JERUSALEM — Israel has decided not to apologize to Turkey for last year’s deadly raid on a Turkish protest flotilla bound for Gaza ahead of a United Nations report on the episode scheduled to be published early next week, according to a senior Israeli official.

Turkey has demanded an official apology, compensation to victims’ relatives and a lifting of the blockade on Gaza as conditions for normalizing its heavily strained relations with Israel, formerly an important ally.

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