Turkey, Israel urged to make up in flotilla row

THE GULF TIMES

AFP/Istanbul

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton greets Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at a meeting of foreign ministers in Sopot, northern Poland yesterday

Top diplomats piled pressure on Turkey and Israel to make up yesterday after Ankara’s decision to expel the Jewish state’s ambassador in retaliation for last year’s deadly Gaza flotilla raid.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, senior European foreign ministers and officials in Washington all urged the one-time allies to end their increasingly poisonous dispute that they worried could impact on the wider Middle East.
But there seemed little prospect of an immediate end to their dispute as Turkey’s foreign minister indicated that a legal challenge to Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip would be launched in a matter of days.


Link