WE SHOULD ALSO TO PUT EVERYWHERE THE BILLBOARDS SHOWING HOW THE TURKISH TERRORISTS OF MAVI MARMARA ARE ATTACKING OUR SOLDIERS WITH IRON BARS !

This is realpolitic at play . Part of a much bigger picture bringing Israel and Turkey on side together with USA / NATO . This is simply shoring up the loose ends . What follows is all important . Iran , Syria , Lebanon ( read Hezbollah ) will know this is all about them and the issues which will begin to play out in the next 12 months .

As you said Turks are all over Central Asia. This is where they originated while Anatolia is home of the Greeks, Kurt's and Armenians. Isn't it time you go back to Western China and stop occupying other nations land?

Bibi showed real statesmanship by doing what is good for his nation. He only expressed regret and is not lifting the Gaza blockade which was Erdogan's main condition. Seems like Erdogan bowed to me. But Erdogan or I. Melih Gokcek putting these billboards show how low they can go in politics,

Although Israel will ease the blockade it will not be lifted and it has been proven not to be unlawful. Israel achieved her aim of enforcing the blockade,although at a cost of a damaged relationship, whilst Turkey has received an apology. With the mending of the relationship unlikely that Turkey will support any future attempts to break the blockade. Erdogan will visit Gaza to srengthen the apology. But after all this settles down most importantly the US,EU, NATO Turkey-Israel relationship will have been restored thus allowing joint dialogue on Syria and Iran.

Sure Ahmet. But just look at the birth rates in Turkey. Turkish women have one child. Kurdish women have 4. In 25 years Israel wont need to speak to you at all. Israel will speak to the new masters of Anatolia - the Kurds. The Turks are finished, losers for all time. Welcome to Kurdistan.

To all Apologists who Said Israel would NEVER apologize and NEVER pay compensation. Israel Apologized and will pay compensation (I don't very much care about how much the blockade is lifted) To all the people (Jew, Turk, Greek, Arab Armenian, American etc) who tried to dynamite the centuries-old relationship between Turkey and the people of Israel: SLAPPP!! Now get on home, Turkey and Israel have very important things to discuss...

You are correct it is propaganda for uneducated people. But isn't it a fact that over half of the Turkish population are uneducated people who vote for this Kasimpasali kabadayi who can not even talk one foreign language (unless of course you count 'van minut' a language). And let me also remind you that Israel was ready to use the word 'Regret' and pay compensation from day 1 but Erdogan's request was the word 'apology' and lifting the blockade over Gaza which he did not get. This is called in politics a compromise and it was forced by our president Barak Obama. If there is a victor in his it is Obama. No losers yet and I hope never.

My biggest problem with turks that in the hundreds of kebab and döner shops in Budapest no delicious sandwiches are sold, because mostly made from cheap chicken and illegal other meats. Original turkish döner from lamb is excellent.

anything ..It's amazing to read the comments...especially when most havn't take into considerations what it will cost them in 'reparations'... Such an interesting word 'reparations' don't you think? TATA

The raid could have been better from a Humanitarian Perspective.Since the State of Israel was created partly on international humanitarian emotions this factor ought not be excluded.

I am sure Bibi lied to the turkish idiot who believed him. I feel Israel should have killed 900 of these racist morons. Mr. turkey, you are the idiots who should be embarrassed for doing nothing. Your leader is a horses ASS !!!!

As you know we are sharing the same DNA with them. Some Turks are more Greek than todays Greeks. Ottomans were East Romans. Sultans were speaking Greek (their mother language) and they call themselves "Kayser-i Roum" in German Kaiser, in Russian Tschar even Some Seljuks were speaking Greek. Unfortunately Orthodox Greeks had left the city after 1970's. In the year BC 300, Greeks have transported the Obelisk (20 m.long 200 tons) from Egypty to Constantinople with A SHIP (Dikilitaş in Sultanahmed as you know) Greeks were fighting with Persians :-)))) and they were wrestling with each other. They were eating Loukoumades with long celebrations. I'm eating Lokma too! Where are the Jews? Jews have always watched from behind. Never joined the wrestlings, the games. They have never eat the Loukoumades! but they have written the historical records. Toda Raba David! Constantinople was a forbidden city for the Armenians. They were 3rd class people but Turks and Armenians were travelling on the Silk road together. Armenian stone workers of Istanbul after the fall of Constantinople... you have to read it. Memluks were slave Turks and Armenians. Before the war, Iranian Armenians were coming to Izmit for Pişmaniye dessert production David !!!! Jews had never shared the printing machine of Gutenberg with Greeks, Armenians and Turks :-)))) Why David? As we say in Turkish "Kendine Müslüman" Dear David, Turks and Greeks can marry each other :-) We don't have any prohibiting body :-)))) Please. You have to know it. Come on!

I have got 2 words for you and they are not happy birthday

Where did Israel admit the raid was wrong? The raid (a legal interception) was carried out to enforce a legal naval blockade. What was wrong was the operational way it was carried out.

David, dostum, you are the single one here who cannot accept the fact that Israel apologized. Yes, apologized. Not sorry, regret, or anything else. This does not put Israel in a lower position.

Sure, we can move when we have to. But not before your fellow Americans leave America and hand the country over to the native Indians. And you Jews back to Egypt.

There is a problem: You can't enforce any blockade on international waters.

... that Erdogan ordered the printing of these billboards? They are not exactly a huge outpouring of love and adoration on the part of an admiring Turkish public. It is solely a product of Erdogan congratulating himself. Lots of low self-esteem, there, masked by parading around like the tiny bantam rooster he is. He is the only world leader that makes Ahmedinejad look taller than his 5' 4" stature.

I agree Israel should have compensated for any casualties on board to Mavri Marmara due to humanitarian reasons above all. HOWEVER PM Netanyahu's apology was a tremendous boost for Erdogan letting the WHOLE OF TURKEY to beilive Turkey can take any action against Israel including boycotting it to all organisations globally since 2008 and be left unpanished. Turkey has a good media system to expose only limited information to the outside world in English. Turkish newspapers celebrated their "Victory in forcing Israel to its knees". Israel wake up! You are not alone! Other countries expect far more from you! beilive in yourself!

I have been eating the best lokmas since I was a little boy in Karsiyaka's famous Lokmaci and I am married to a Chinese woman. yes some Turks marry Greeks but usually forcing them to convert to Islam. In fact when a christian man marries a Muslim Turk at a late age they are forced to even circumcise which often is reported as a big event in papers. The point I was making is when you glorified your Turkish history as the Turanci philosophy does from Europe to CentralAsia then I reminded to you the problem of that type of ideology which is against Ataturk's principals. I do not really support the Turks to go to central Asia. At the same time I am tryiing to make a point to those Turks who say to Jews to go back to Europe in which case Jews have more rihts to Israel historically then Turks have rights on Anatolia. And as a last note: Jews did not turn any mosques into Synagogues while Turks turned the Aya Sofya into a Mosque. It shows which culture respects diversity ond others' beliefs and which dos not.

I am just stating the facts. He used the word regret. But let's say he used apology. No problem for me. This as I mentioned is good statesmanship on the part of Bibi. He swallowed his personal pride and did what is good for his nation. He must be praised for this. He will use this new relationship with Turkey when he needs and I can assure you Erdogan will bend because he has received orders from Obama. You will soon see Israel participating in NATO exercises while Turkey may chose not to. And if US or Israel needs to Intervene on Syria or Iran, Turkey will not oppose or prevent using Turkish soil.

International laws allow a country to intervene in international waters when they feel a threat. Riza Turmen wrote about this right after th eMavi Marmara incident in Hurriyet (or was it Milliyet?)

Jews move back to Egypt when you Turks 0ove to Central Asia and vice versa.

who says we are losing ...you?..israel is far ahead of you hairy turks economically and militarily...you are losers and you are dirty...you ever see midnight express?..thats what you turks are

Those Turks that were shot dead including the American Turks deserved what they got and it was a mistake for Israel to apologize, Muslims are not civilized enough to appreciate diplomacy and justice they view this as weakness and the proof is the reaction from the Turky's themselves. Nothing will change for the better with that backward regime.

But from time to time, as we sit by the river, we see bloated corpses floating by. These are our enemies, Fad. Thats how it's been for centuries. Shalom, friend.

So Israel must compensate a few Turkish families yet Turkey compensates no Armenian families for the nearly 2 million innocent Armenians Turkey slaughtered like cattle during WW1. Despicable.

Does Israel realize what reparations to the Palestinians will cost every Jew on the planet? All Zionists and Jews have been collecively guilty of the 'Grand Theft & Destruction of Palestine' so reparations will be paid by 'same' sooner or later! Peace or no Peace, Israel will have to pay ! TATA'...