{"id":146349,"date":"2011-12-05T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T07:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=146349"},"modified":"2011-12-05T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T07:42:37","slug":"turkey-tells-us-vice-president-joe-biden-what-it-expects-from-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/05\/turkey-tells-us-vice-president-joe-biden-what-it-expects-from-israel.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Tells US Vice President Joe Biden What It Expects from Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel knows what it needs to do to ease the tension with Turkey, said Turkish officials during a meeting with US Vice President Joe Biden in Istanbul, adding that Israel must apologize for the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident, when Israeli soldiers killed nine Turkish citizens trying to defy embargo on Gaza strip, and provide compensation to the families of those killed.<\/p>\n<p>According to diplomatic sources, the issue was raised by Biden briefly in his talks with Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl, Parliamentary Speaker Cemil \u00c7i\u00e7ek and PM Erdo\u011fan. When Biden said the US wanted to work with Turkey on a number of conceivable subjects \u2014 not limited to the Arab Spring issues \u2014 and Turkey\u2019s efforts to have a better profile in the US Congress, where Israeli, Greek and Armenian lobbies were active, he got a similar reply from his counterparts. Ankara told Washington that Turkey did not want relations with Israel to hit rock-bottom like this; it wanted normalization and told Israel what is needed for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told the Americans they could go and talk to the Israeli government,\u201d one Turkish official, who did not want to be named, told the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hurriyetdailynews.com\/israel-knows-what-to-do-ankara-tells-washington.aspx?pageID=449&amp;nID=8425&amp;NewsCatID=409\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. \u201cIsrael knows what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ankara expects Biden to share this stance with US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta before his visit to Turkey, planned for January 2012. Panetta recently told Israel to find a way to normalize its relations with Turkey, Egypt and Jordan in order to break the isolation surrounding it and sit at the \u201cdamned\u201d table with Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara believes it was up to Washington to convince Tel Aviv for an acceptable solution.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Boston.com<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel knows what it needs to do to ease the tension with Turkey, said Turkish officials during a meeting with US Vice President&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10679,665,17829,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}