“We don’t have any intention to apologize. We think that the opposite is true,” Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told reporters during a visit to Latvia.
Turkey was once Israel’s closest ally, but after the staged flotilla incident, Turkey has been demanding Israel pay compensation to the victims, release the blockade and agree to a U.N. inquiry.
“Israel has three paths ahead: It either apologizes, or accepts the findings from an international commission investigating the raid, or Turkey will cut off ties,” Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a Turkish newspaper.
“It will be enough if their own commission rules that the raid was unfair and they apologize in line with the commission’s verdict, but we have to see the verdict first,” he said.
The comments come as nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists were killed during the flotilla raid.
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