Activists in the Mavi Marmara were anything but innocent civilians. If you do not realise this it could be it's because you are Irish.

The M.M. terrorists who planned to harm/kill members of Israel's IDF, are now mouldering in cold graves Erdogon and cohorts, having conspired with a terrorist group to arrange the M M's departure from Turkey, should do the apologizing and compensate the families of the dead terrorists. There are consequences for one's actions and the terrorists, who placed IDF lives in jeopardy, have paid the ultimate price. So be it. I think Erdogan and his sycophants should be barred from the Chicago meeting until he/they apologize for the millions of innocent Armenians and Kurds they have unmercifully slaughtered. Nato and any other organization that purport to deal with World peace should not have to put up with Erdogan's hateful, obsessive, and propagandistic outbursts toward Israel. If he doesn't like Israel participating in a particular meeting, then he should stay home and fulminate all he wants to.

Hold one's friends close, but hold one's enemies even more closely

Turkey should find the courage to apologize firstly about the S.S. Struma. Then 723 Jews were sent to sure death in the cold waters of Black Sea.Most of them were women and children and nobody seems to remember about them.

I hadn't realized that Turkey had been appointed to the Reception Committee

erdogan sent his terrorists on the mavi marmara to deliver to gazans with outdated and expired medicines.Israel successfully prevented this turkish crime being implemented with the cost of 9 terrorists.

...third-world bankrupt, wannabe country. My friend, lured by realtor's sumptuously-embellished fliers, bought upscale property in what had been billed as a paradise, only to find himself living in a depressed dump with little or no chance for improvement in the mid-to-long-term future. Turkey is an irrelevant country that is seriously overstated by her proponents.

It was the Turks who saved the Medieval Jews from certain Death for centuries. For many centuries it was only the Turks who saved Jews. Sure they taxed them good. lol right or wrong it would be best for Israel to reconcil with Turkey and move on. If it is compensation then do it. I am not saying Turkey was right but people did die in international waters.

The sea bottom is littered with ships that attacked one another in International Waters, which in effect means that those waters are a wet battlefield instead of a dry Thoset hat died came armed to resist, they went out the same way they came with their intentions to do hard, foiled by the IDF

Yes, it was in international waters, which is LEGAL and actually preferred. Yes, the ships attempted to break a LEGAL blockade. Yes, the IHH planned to attack the soldiers as soon as they boarded, even if they boarded with fully loaded paint ball guns. Yes, the Israeli soldiers were on the defensive, while adhering to all international rules in conducting the blockade. And hitting back hard when you slap is also legal. Yes, Turkey must apologize, as must you. You obviously have no idea what the international law is, nor do you want to know. Turkey and the IHH were in the wrong and it is only by the stretch of your own imagination that they are not. But you don’t bother with facts, so why start now, right?