No apology to Turkey over Gaza aid convoy raid: Israel minister

JERUSALEM: Israeli unfamiliar apportion Avigdor Lieberman vowed on Sunday that Israel would not apologise to Turkey for a commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship that killed 9 Turkish activists.

Speaking in Jerusalem during a assembly of Israel's ambassadors, Lieberman pronounced Ankara's direct for an reparation before normalising family in between a former allies was "a cheek."

"The ones who have to apologise have been a supervision of Turkey for supporting terror," he said.

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