Turkish PM says no sanctions on Israel unfair

PanARMENIAN.Net - If the Quartet was willing to resolve Turkey-Israel issue, they would have imposed certain issues on Israel today, Turkish Prime Minister said.

As Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview to TIME magazine, “until today, the U.N. Security Council has issued more than 89 resolutions on prospective sanctions related to Israel, but they've never been executed. And furthermore, there were about 200 resolutions issued by the General Assembly and neither have those been complied with. One might wonder why no sanctions have been imposed on Israel. When it's Iran in question, you impose sanctions. Similarly with Sudan. What happens with Israel then?”

The PM further urged the international community to support Palestine on its way to independence. “Through TIME, I'd like to make a call out to humanity: [the Palestinians] are there to exist. They are not there to be condemned to struggle in an open-air penitentiary. Israel's cruelty in that regard cannot be continued any longer.”

Dwelling on the rift in Israel-Turkey relations, Erdogan noted that as long as the embargo on Gaza has not been lifted, the relations between the two countries will never become normalized. “Our mutual relations with Israel would have been reinforced even further only if Israel hadn't victimized the positive relations of two countries with [its 2010 raid] on the Mavi Marmara,” the PM said.