Report: Turkey Warns Israel Against 'Dirty Bargaining' Over Gaza Flotilla Compensation
High-ranking Turkish officials told the newspaper Hurriyet Daily News that they did not wish to be dragged into “dirty bargaining” with Israel over the amount of compensation to be paid over the deaths of nine Turkish citizens aboard the 2010 Gaza flotilla in the first round of talks over the issue, which will take place next week.
On April 22, a high-ranking Israeli delegation will arrive in Ankara for talks on normalizing relations between the two countries and setting the compensation arrangements over the deaths amid a botched Israel Navy raid aboard the Mavi Marmara vessel.
The Israeli delegation will include national security adviser Ya'akov Amidror and the prime minister’s envoy to the talks in Turkey, Joseph Ciechanover. The Turkish side will be represented by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc and Turkey's Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry, Feridun Sinirlioğlu.
High-ranking Turkish officials were quoted in the Hurriyet Daily News as saying that they would ask Israel to pay a significant sum as compensation to the families of the men who were killed.
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