Mavi Marmara

Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal has been released by Israeli authorities following Monday's deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara aid ship that was destined for Gaza. Our producer, who reported...

A senior officer of the Israel Defence Forces has accused the peace activists on the Mavi Marvara of being military personnel trained in Afghanistan and other countries in Asia...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Gazan Palestinians took to the sea yesterday to honour the international humanitarians who were killed by Israeli forces in the eastern Mediterranean. A fleet of small crafts...

Turkey's Foreign Minister has laid the blame for a lack of peace in the Middle East firmly at Israel's door. Ahmet Davutoğlu told a meeting of EU foreign ministers...

Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon has said that the Turkish government has decided not to resume security coordination with Tel Aviv. Such coordination stopped in mid-2010 following Israel's...

Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has said that the Turkish government headed by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is completely uninterested in a diplomatic rapprochement between Ankara and Tel Aviv. In...

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister Dan Meridor is the latest Israeli official who has reportedly had to cancel his plans to come to the...

A criminal court in Istanbul is due to begin the hearing of 490 witnesses from 37 countries in the case against Israeli officials responsible for the murderous attack on...

There were no economic, commercial, military or political ties between Turkey and the Gaza Strip before 2006. It seems that the ongoing humanitarian crisis has encouraged Turkey to put...

Media sources are reporting that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated his country's demands for an end to the political crisis between Israel and Turkey. "Restoring good...

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered on Thursday morning in the Port of Gaza to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the Israeli naval attack against the Freedom Flotilla led by the...

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the elected Palestinian government in Gaza, has called on the international community to read Israel's report on the Mavi Marmara attack carefully before prosecuting...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has said that the crimes committed by the Israeli authorities are well documented and action could be taken in the international courts against those...

Israel's interim Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday rejected an initiative by his Defence Minister, Ehud Barack, to apologise to Turkey over the killing of nine Turkish citizens aboard...

Huge gaps have opened up between Turkey and Israel over the amount of compensation for the Mavi Marmara families as well as Israel's position towards the Palestinians, Syrians and...

Israel's new Justice Minister, Tzipi Livni, has been in touch with Ahmed Davutoglu, the Foreign Minister of Turkey, over compensation for the victims of her country's attack on the...

The Hamas government in Gaza has congratulated Turkey for the apology it received from Israel over the killings on the Freedom Flotilla in 2010. It is, said the Islamic...

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister has said that his country's relations with Turkey will never be completely repaired to what they were before Israel's attack on the Freedom Flotilla in...

Three rounds of discussions over the amount of compensation to be paid for the victims of Israel's assault on the 2010 Freedom Flotilla have not resolved the issue, media...

Eyewitness accounts of Israel's assault on the aid ship Mavi Marmara are emerging which give a very different picture to the official Israeli version of events. Survivors of the...

With the launch date for Freedom Flotilla II approaching at the end of May, Turkey's Foreign Minister has warned Israel about repeating "last year's mistake" in which Israeli commandos...

In response to allegations made by the leader of Turkey's opposition party accusing the government of engaging in a ministerial visit to Israel, Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, confirmed...

Turkey's Foreign Minister has announced that his country has expelled the Israeli ambassador to Ankara. Making the announcement following the leaked publication of the UN Palmer Report into Israel's...

Turkey's Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has stated that the apology made by Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, over Israel's attack on the...

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that he is planning to visit the Gaza Strip "soon". The Turkish Anatolia news agency reported that Erdogan hasn't announced...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pointed out that Israel has not fulfilled the promise made when it offered a formal apology to his country for the 2010 attack on the...

Former Israeli naval commander, Major General Eli Marom, was detained this morning on his arrival at London's Heathrow airport. General Marom was the commander of the Israeli navy during...

The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself. By John J. Mearsheimer Israel's botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign...

The first anniversary of Israel's horrific assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla is fast approaching. As most people will remember, nine peace activists were killed by Israeli commandos when...

By Abdel Bari Atwan We thank God that the Freedom Flotilla set sail from the ports of Turkey; we praise Him more that one of them, Mavi Marmara, was...

In the middle of the stupendous social change sweeping Arab shores, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a landmark visit to Turkey. He has always refused to visit Turkey, and...

When the UN Secretary General announced on 2 August 2010 that a Panel of Inquiry had been established to investigate the Israeli attacks of 31 May on the Mavi...