{"id":41959,"date":"2010-09-21T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/21\/gul-says-he-won%e2%80%99t-meet-israeli-president-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:17:00","slug":"gul-says-he-won%e2%80%99t-meet-israeli-president-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/21\/gul-says-he-won%e2%80%99t-meet-israeli-president-in-new-york.html","title":{"rendered":"G\u00fcl Says He Won\u2019t Meet Israeli President in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fc<\/span>l has stated that he is not planning to have a bilateral meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres during his stay in New York to attend the 65th annual session of the UN General Assembly, reports Today’s Zaman.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a matter of fact, my program is not available anyhow,\u201d G\u00fc<\/span>l was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency when he was asked whether he would have a bilateral meeting with Peres while in New York. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur schedule does not permit it,\u201d G\u00fc<\/span>l briefly repeated when asked whether he chose not to attend to the activity in order avoid Peres.<\/p>\n

Bilateral tension between Israel and Turkey peaked in the aftermath of Israel\u2019s May 31 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine activists dead. Ankara has recently made clear that relations must be normalized via a fulfillment of Turkey\u2019s conditions on Israel before allowing any high-level visits between the two countries.<\/p>\n

Following the May 31 incident, Israel has said the soldiers acted in self-defense after being attacked as they boarded the Mavi Marmara, one of the aid flotilla\u2019s six vessels owned by a Turkish charity. Turkey, on the other hand, is demanding an apology from Israel and compensation for the families of the victims.<\/p>\n

In New York, G\u00fc<\/span>l reiterated Turkey\u2019s conditions of apology and compensation, when asked whether an apology from Israel would be sufficient for Turkey for normalization of the relations.<\/p>\n

According to international law, Israel has to both offer an apology and pay compensation, G\u00fc<\/span>l said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[10679,10714,11622,11623],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41959"}],"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=41959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}