The Morning Call · Allentown, Pennsylvania · 4 June 2010
CP-2010-025
Turks vent rage at activists’ funerals
President says Israeli actions unforgivable as freed protesters describe fighting commandos
By Jeffrey Fleishman / TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS
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ISTANBUL — The wooden coffins of eight activists killed by Israeli commandos wound through the streets of Istanbul on Thursday as Turks wept and their leaders spoke of the irreparable harm Israel has done to one of its closest Muslim allies. Turkish anger at the clash between Israel and an activist flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip early Monday had appeared to be subsiding.
But the funerals, along with harrowing accounts of returning survivors, added a fresh sense of outrage. “Turkey will never forgive this attack,” President Abdullah Gul said on NTV television. “Turkish-Israeli relations can never be as before from now on.”
The drama over Israel’s assault on the Free Gaza Movement flotilla widened when one of the dead was identified as an American citizen of Turkish descent. Furkan Dogan, 19, who was born in Troy, N.Y., but had lived for years in Turkey, was shot four times in the head and once in the chest, according to the state-run Anatolian news agency.
In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet debated how to handle calls for an international investigation. Netanyahu’s advisers are divided over what sort of inquiry will be convened, officials said. Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who is facing calls for his resignation, is arguing for an internal military audit.
Other ministers are recommending an independent commission with international involvement to ensure credibility. Near Istanbul’s Fatih mosque, boys shimmied up poles and men climbed atop stone walls to glimpse the funeral cortege.
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"Turks vent rage at activists’ funerals," The Morning Call, 4 June 2010. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2010-025. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2010-025
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