Turkey's diplomatic offensive against Israel gains Muslim steam

erdogan knows his job.

That right is reserved to the government and the legislative. Statements like that of the IDF commander are dangerous, and he should be discipled for this. Because Turkey actually spends more on its military than Israel (even though it's technology is still lacking in some regards), it has a bigger manpower, and any conflict with a NATO member would have uncalculable consequences. It's simply NOT in Israel's interest to let an idiotic IDF commander create a casus belli! Especially not with a power that would become a real danger to the nation if it created a coalition with other Middle East neighbors.

This the real reason...and the world , just like in the case of Iran , are bieng taken by their noses.... Wake up world , and smell the Islamic world creeping in...

When the Nine Turks were killed, Israili official speaker said that Turkey must be blamed to make the flottila. Whell !! if Erdogan can capture this chance and the next Turkish parliment will be dominated by AKP, with some CHP, and the return of SP. So who will be blamed to give such chance??? According to the folmal ( Resmi) theory !!! Bibi will be responsible and must be blamed.

Turkish opposition parties wants a far harsher reaction against Israel and it's actually Erdogan's party who acted against it. The opposition fully supports all the movements against Israel in Turkey, heck they're trying to pick up voters that way themselves. They've never voiced anything about the disadvantages of loosening ties with Israel.

Go on punk, make my day!

"If he comes here with Turkish warships there can be no doubt that it would amount to a declaration of war" ok, what are you gonna do? ? Declare war to Turkey ? .... even if NATO violates it's own charter and doesn't help Turkey while it's being attacked, the Turks would kick our asses easily ! Hello ? Israel is 150 miles long and as little as 15 miles wide... a fully deployed US Armored Division would fit inside, and I doubt a Turkish one could either. Bibi has to stop this B.S, he's driving Israel into the wall !! We aren't China you know, we can't thumb our nose at the rest of the world like that and get away with it ! Sure we do have a afew nukes, but if we use them it's Holocaust Reloaded, so we don't want that either do we ? Please Bibi, resign and let someone who's not a gangster run out beloved nation for a change !

"If he comes here with Turkish warships there can be no doubt that it would amount to a declaration of war," Major-Genral (Res.) Uzi Dayan told Army Radio." An act of war was committed with the murdering of Turkish civilians in international waters. Erdogan should visit Gaza escorted by a full complement of warships plus a few dozen F-16s flying overhead. Let's see how that vaunted Israeli military machine fairs against a real military power.

Now that the obviousness of the reasons behind this debacle are made as clear and obvious as humany possible, the world now has no choice but to... ...continue burying its head in the sand so that it doesn't have to face admiting being completely wrong about israel.

There is no justification for a blockade and whether there may be controls is an open question. Would you control his ship for weapons? It is a warship.

Think that would be interesting.

both are bound to gaza in the next couple of weeks. What then?

All indications point to US no longer supporting Erdogan for a plethora of reasons but the two of the most important reasons are Erdogan's confrontation with Israel and his support of the Iranians and the latest uranium deal. This sets an interesting situation in Turkey we never witnessed before (a right-wing govt no longer supported by US, a govt which is also islamist). My guess is that Erdogan now feels that he has no thing to loose so he can do very dangerous things. He will definitely exploit the Gaza episode for more votes. The key here is Turkish army which always and always obeyed the Americans even after the Iraq cuval episode. I wonder what Americans are thinking now.

Turkey is all talk no action, you will see how they will back off from Israel, because Turkey knows that Israel will send them back to the stone age in 1 week period.

he is absolutely right, the world condemn the israe raid and the other illigal activities, such as forgery the passport, selling nuk to south aferica, killing innocent people, using white phosphorne etc, etc

Fact 1: opposition parties in Turkey have demanded early elections ever since they got defeated in the last one by a wide margin. Fact 2: a major consitutional referendum is scheduled for September 12th, but the main opposition party has applied to the Supreme Court to block the referendum. If the Supreme Court does block the referendum, then an early election is certainly possible. Fact 3: None of today's major Turkish dailies attribute early election demands to the governing party but there are a few stories about opposition parties asking for it. Fact 4: Lebanese media doesn't have much of any inside information or authority on Turkish prime minister's intentions, especially if Turkey's own media doesn't mention this as a serious story. Fact 5: Israeli Major-General Dayan should get some training on how not to issue threats based on bogus news stories.

Time to comprimise, time to admit mistakes and shake hands, Erdogan is not going to sail with Turkish warships, and Israel is not going to decalre war aginst Turkey, this is got way out of hand, time to call in cooler heads

Lame. Politicians all suck.

Is this what frendship means to turkeys and some other governements or is it a dirty plot to give Israel a bad name while they now that God aloon will act in this matter.

It's a shame what the AKP is doing to what should be a secular country. More women with headscarves, and more mosques being built in Turkey all the time. Erdogan just wants to court the muslim vote here and is willing to say anything to do it. Even foolishly jeopardizing Turkey's position in NATO and with the rest of the West. Netayahu's rhetoric is equally as reckless.

as a turkish person, there is nothing common between Erdogan and myself... Please do not forget the 60million Turkish people who decided to stay home and not protest with the covered up extremists... Erdogan time and time again fails to see who chooses to stay home, he used to own moderate right, now with more power he has lost his senses altogether. greed is the worst enemy of a politician. Unfortunately, I cannot say better things for Netanyahu. Both are power fighting, inexperienced, weak leaders... hope we will see more mature acts from diplomats and army leaders.

in 10 years, you can expect 50% of turkey to be extremist islamic leaning people, especially the young. mark my words, this is the zia ul haq of pakistan moment of turkey. it will be down the hill for them as a civilised secular nation from now on. 10 years from now, they will be no different from the frothing in the mouth madness u see today in egypt and pakistan.

Erdogan should come and many more should follow, it is about time a leader of Erdogan's stature says ENOUGH to Israel.