Turkel / Palmer report Don't describe the killing on flotilla

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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday that he was furious about the leaking of the Palmer Report on the Gaza flotilla raid in May of 2010 in which Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish citizens, according to the Turkish newspaper “Today’s Zaman”.

Davutoglu alluded in talks with Turkish reporters that Turkey does not accept the report’s findings, that claimed that Israel Defense Forces soldiers on board the Mavi Marmara acted in self defense, but used excessive force.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkey-fm-furious-over-leaked-gaza-flotilla-report-as-israel-turkey-ties-remain-uncertain-1.382145

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Israel refused to cooperate with this United Nations panel even though the United Nations and governments all around the world called for just such an independent investigation of the events.

Instead, the Israeli government set up its own investigatory panel, The Turkel Commission, led by Israeli retired Supreme Court Judge Jacob Turkel. Three other Israelis issued a report on January 23, 2011 exonerating the commandos, then saying the blockade was legal. The commission did not interview a single passenger or crew member from any of the boats but only received testimony from the Israeli military.

On January 28, 2011, Amnesty International condemned the Turkel findings as no more than a whitewash.  “Despite being nearly 300 pages long, the report crucially fails to explain how the activists died and what conclusions the Commission reached regarding the IDF’s specific actions in each case.”

Free Gaza shares Amnesty International's analysis that the conflict between the Israeli armed forces and unarmed civilians was not armed conflict, making international humanitarian law the wrong framework; international human rights law and law enforcement norms should have been applied, which would have made the use of force – and especially lethal force –an act of last resort.

http://www.nbmediacoop.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1720:palmeruribe-report-another-attempt-by-israel-to-whitewash-murder&catid=98:world&Itemid=150

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Israel has accepted andTurkey has rejected the Palmer Commission report on the Mavi Marmara incident. Israel has also said once again that it will not apologize to Turkey. This is from the third link. While Israel is aware of the implications of its decision to refrain from issuing an apology, "we cannot conduct ourselves based on ultimatums," the official said.

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/09/israel-accepts-turkey-rejects-palmer.html