{"id":18568,"date":"2012-05-28T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=18568"},"modified":"2012-05-28T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:00:51","slug":"israeli-officers-face-turkish-trial18568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/israeli-officers-face-turkish-trial18568\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Officers Face Turkish Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mavi-marmara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mavi-marmara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>A Turkish court has charged four senior Israeli military commanders over the killing of nine Turkish activists trying to reach Gaza in 2010.<\/h1>\n<p>Ex-military chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi and former heads of military intelligence, the navy and air force are expected to be tried in absentia.\u00a0The nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed after Israeli troops boarded their ship, the Mavi Marmara.\u00a0They had been hoping to breach Israel&#8217;s naval blockade and deliver aid to Gaza.<\/p>\n<h2>A prosecutor at the court in Istanbul has called for each of the four Israeli officers to face nine life sentences<\/h2>\n<p>The other three commanders are ex-naval chief Vice Admiral Eliezer Marom, former head of military intelligence Major General Amos Yadlin, and former head of the air force Brigadier General Avishai Lev.\u00a0Israel has refused to co-operate with any prosecution of those who took part in the attack.\u00a0If they are convicted, the Turkish court could issue a warrant for their arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavi Marmara was intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters as it sailed towards Gaza&#8217;s coast on 31 May 2010.\u00a0A UN inquiry found that Israel&#8217;s blockade of Gaza was &#8220;a legitimate security measure&#8221;.\u00a0It said Israeli troops had faced &#8220;significant, organised and violent resistance&#8221; when they boarded the ship.<\/p>\n<p>But it said Israel&#8217;s decision to board the ship and the use of substantial force was &#8220;excessive and unreasonable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkish court has charged four senior Israeli military commanders over the killing of nine Turkish activists trying to reach Gaza in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,171,173,14],"tags":[3824,23781,23783,874,17562,4719,15418,19896,13578,77182,15416,865,23780,23779,77185,18079,890,6772,23782],"class_list":["post-18568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-turkey","category-turkey-headlines","category-world","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-2010","tag-gaza-turkey-israel","tag-israel-turkey","tag-israel-turkey-relations","tag-israeli-officers","tag-mavi-marmara-israel","tag-mavi-marmara-raid-israel","tag-mavi-marmara-turkish-citizens","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-gaza-flotallia","tag-turkey-israel","tag-turkey-mavi-marmara","tag-turkey-middle-east","tag-turkey-politics","tag-turkey-un","tag-turkey-israel-relations","tag-turkish-court","tag-un-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}