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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Erdogan to visit Gaza in late May

If President Obama hoped to try to talk Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan out of visiting Gaza during their May 16 meeting in Washington, those hopes were dashed on Sunday. Erdogan announced that he will visit Gaza in late May, just in time for the anniversary of the Mavi Marmara incident.
The Turkish leader, who has for years spoken of his desire to visit the Palestinian enclave, was expected to travel there this month but postponed his trip at the request of Washington, the Turkish daily Hurriyet and other local media reported.
The United States wanted the trip delayed, the reports said, so as not spoil a nascent rapprochement between Turkey and Israel following an Israeli apology in March for the killing of nine Turks in 2010.
US Secretary of State John Kerry met Erdogan in Istanbul last week, his second visit to Turkey in just over a month, but it was not clear if they had discussed the Gaza visit.
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