His senses of Sultan greatness rapidly grow. Due Erdogan, Turkey will eat a big fight. For shame, "her greatness". The sick ambitions of Erdogan could impress Anatolia, but actually he is very funny of Turkish intellectuals, who see in him only retrograde populism. What's in his nargile? Or in his Turkish coffee?

Thank you for your comments and reading my post. I am not alone with my thoughts and I do believe even an ever powerful Erdogan can not change the fabrics of this country easily. Still, it is a crazy world, and we have to be vigilant and alert. I wanted to share with you a link from Hurriyet today, an objective article on the current crisis and a good and fair analysis from a Turkish journalist in my opinion. David Israel, our voices are getting louder each day :) fingers crossed and thank you for the good wishes. Same wishes from many of us to Israel and its people. Here is the link...http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=relations-with-israel-and-the-kurdish-question-2011-09-11

Simply intercept the flotilla inside Israels territorial waters. The Turkish navy will not dare to follow .

because they believe isralel has no need /right to protect its own people... they believe that the gaza blocade must be lifted to allow any and all merchedice to enter Gaza ports unfettered ...and if weapons happen to be on the manafest ...to bad...israel must allow it.... ----------- it doesn't matter that the Gaza mall is brimming full of merchendice.. it doesn't matter if there are large numbers of semi trucks passing thru check points with food and other need goods ... the unfettered access must happen according to the liberal do gooders ... who ,if they had qassams and mortors raining down daily on the nieghborhood where they lived, would be the first to demamd that thier government take action to stop it. --- good samaritan traits are a good thing to have.... but a true good samaritan will not put the lives of another people at risk....he will find another more peaceful way...

I respect your words and I am grateful for your sentiments, but you do of course realize that there is no possible way that Israel can or will repair relations with Turkey as Turkey edges further and further into the Iranian camp. Turkey will have to choose.

They were not civilians. They were terrorists. Israel considers IHH to be a terrorist organization. And all that matters is Israel's perception.

There is not a single precept or tenet in international law which decrees that an attempted breach of a fully legal and internationally recognized blockade cannot be thwarted in international waters.

I can confirm, indeed, ördög means devil in Hungarian. It never occured to me that Erdogan's name can have anything to do with this distortivve form. Probably not, though. Or who knows? Anyway, you are astute!

"He's wrecked their economy,... bla bla bla" You are such an ignorant, Turkisch economy expanded in the first quarter of this year by 11,9% and in the second by 8,9%. I wonder how the Israeli economy did, I assume much worse. ; )

yes, and erdo" means forest in hungarian. for those too lazy to check an online turkish dictionary, er-dogan means a male hawk. btw, instead of insulting turkey, ppl wld do much better to think long and hard about the true meaning of the word "security" and how best to achieve it.

How come Turkish economy is so great and yet the GPI (Gross Personal Income) is just about half of Israel's and Greece? And how come Israel produces its own defense products and sells them to Turkey while Turkey can not? How come there are many more people in Turkey living below poverty line then Israel and Greece? Konyali hesabi bu kadar olur.

Turkey's is BB.

9 Civilian Turkish people were killed by Israel...No any answer for that...

What mistakes are those squawker parrot-being humiliated by Israel in each war.You are safe in Israel chicadick,.How would you like to live in the surrounding Arab/Moslem countries. Of course there will be war-that's a given.You Arabs are too stupid to want peace.

Can't you read stupid.There hundreds of replies posted.

you know how long erdogan needs for 9 unarmed (other then the IHH islamists) kurds? lesser then 1 hour. its not about human rights. its about erdogans new policy.

Erdogan is backing down from his threats, you only have to listen &U do a wee bit of reading

Mummy has just passed on to her heavenly abode. Does ErDogan not want to respect her passing for a while. He really is a strange weasel!

poor to absolutely no schooling, and no strong hands in the family. I assume, simply brought into the world and like millions of others, left to get on with it!

stop calling them actavists, cause they all wanted to call them selfs martyrs and openly attacked the soldiers on the ship.