Turkey: Warships will back next flotilla

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Turkey: Warships will back next flotilla



News: Turkish PM Erdogan announces Ankara's ships will escort aid vessels headed to Gaza. Meanwhile, Ankara-Cairo ties to get commercial boost in form of military, trade contracts and naval maneuvers

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Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Al-Jazeera television on Thursday.

"Turkish warships, in the first place, are authorized to protect our ships that carry humanitarian aid to Gaza," Erdogan said in the interview. "From now on, we will not let these ships to be attacked by Israel, as what happened with the Freedom Flotilla."

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Erdogan also said that Turkey has taken steps to "stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean."

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor responded to the Turkish premier' statement by saying: "This is a statement well-worth not commenting on."



Earlier Thursday, a military source told an Egyptian website that Turkey is expected to hold naval military maneuvers with Egypt in Turkey's territorial waters at the end of the year.


Erdogan will visit Egypt next week as part of a regional tour and is expected to sign several trade and military agreements with Cairo.


Turkey is a prominent member in NATO and "Egypt is determined to hold the maneuvers in spite of its current political climate," the source told the website.

While in Egypt, Erdogan will meet with Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, Defense Minister Mohammed Hussein Tantawi and other top officials.

According to Egyptian media, a mission of high-ranking Turkish officials will accompany Erdogan, including Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Ankara's trade minister and several prominent businessmen.


Eye in the sky


Meanwhile, a senior Israeli military official told the Associated Press that the IDF has deployed drones over the Israel-Egypt border.

According to AP's source, the IAF deployed a special unit of unmanned surveillance aircraft along Israel's long border with Egypt as a terror-prevention measure, after terrorists infiltrated the border and killed eight Israelis in August.


The drones are said to be monitoring both sides of the 150-mile border, though the aircrafts are keeping solely to Israeli airspace.

Israel has grown increasingly concerned about the security situation in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula following the ouster of longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February.


Roi Kais, Roee Nahmias and AP contributed to this report

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...119834,00.html

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All that Muslim saber rattling in Middle East really doesn't look good, folks.

That Obama policy of perpetually caving-in & kowtowing to Evil Enemies & their Allies (also bent destroying us) obviously hasn't worked & isn't working,...for either America, Israel & entire Free World. Seems working great for The Muslim Brotherhood.

Regardless, all just better watch out, be aware & ready, and keep our powder dry. After all, didn't We (re. The U.S. Taxpayer) greatly train & modernly arm those fearsome, belligerent & once friendly Turks to-the-teeth, anyway?

Besides, in that part of the world whom truly know what Intransigent Ideologue Israel Haters like Palestinians & Turks will do: "when push comes to shove"?

Obama's constant capitulating to such threatening nuts (as done by other weak leaders before), usually makes matters MUCH worse & gets MANY MORE people killed than should ever need be, in the long run (If lucky & there is a long run?).

There would've been MANY MILLIONS LESS slaughtered way-back-when,...if Hitler, Stalin & MAO were stopped early or dead in their tracks at the beginning.

Besides logic & plain common sense proving so,...that's a sad historical fact my friends.
"Turn the other check" only works out well in scripture. In Real World such could be lethal.

Neil