A slightly confusing report from Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper. If true, it sounds like Erdogan was playing a cynical pre-election game to increase his vote only to ditch the Palestinian cause after a bit of pressure from the US and the votes were in.
A Turkish civil-society group appears to be backing away from its previous resolve to send a new aid flotilla to Gaza, saying Tuesday that it may cancel its plans depending on developments, especially in Syria.
“We are reconsidering our plans. We cannot close our eyes to the developments on our doorstep,” HĂĽseyin Oruç, a board member of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or Ä°HH, and the spokesman for the new flotilla, told the HĂĽrriyet Daily News. The group had previously demonstrated a firm insistence on sending the Mavi Marmara, the vessel on which nine people were killed last year in an Israeli raid on an earlier flotilla, back to Gaza in late June.
“Our goal is not to set sail to Gaza. We think we can serve the purpose by sending a ship or canceling it,” Oruç said Tuesday. “We’ll make our decision by the end of this week,” the spokesman added. more
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