“We don't have any confidence at all that Israel will conduct an impartial investigation -- as a country which attacked a civilian convoy in international waters, thereby committing a violation of international law,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu told reporters on Monday in Ankara.
The commission will include two foreign observers to satisfy international calls for an impartial investigation. “Any investigation conducted unilaterally by Israel will have no value to us,” Davutoğlu said
,” Davutoğlu resorted to a metaphor to make Turkey’s position clear once more, saying, “To have a defendant acting simultaneously as both prosecutor and judge is not compatible with any principle of law.”
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said an investigation conducted unilaterally by Israel will be of no value to Turkey.
“If an international commission is not set up and if Turkey’s rightful demands continue to be disregarded, Turkey has the right to unilaterally review ties with Israel and implement sanctions,” Davutoğlu warned.
Ankara “is waiting patiently for the international community to take action in an objective manner,” the minister said, adding that “otherwise there might be measures that we could take.”
In Ankara, nonetheless, Davutoğlu played down the role for foreign observers, saying that “international participation in a commission established by Israel does not give it an international quality.”
Additionally, in a pointed appeal to Washington, Davutoğlu recalled that the youngest victim of the raid, 19-year-old Furkan Doğan, was also a US national.
“The issue of the inquiry will obviously continue to be an issue of strong policy debate,” Blair said. “There are many different views on this but the Israeli inquiry is obviously a significant step forward.”
Hasan Köni, a professor of international relations at İstanbul’s Bahçeşehir University, maintained that with such an inquiry, Israel is actually distorting the requirements of international law.
This is not acceptable under international law. This only satisfies Israeli public opinion and the US,” Köni elaborated while speaking to Today’s Zaman.
.Laçiner, meanwhile, stressed that it is not only soldiers that need to be tried, but also those who ordered them to raid the ship
“Moreover, the Israeli government rewarded the soldiers, which means ‘approving’ what was committed. If you order the raid, approve of -- by rewarding the soldiers -- the botched boarding of the ship, do not apologize and then hold an inquiry into the incident, then this is called an ‘acquittal commission.’ This is completely unacceptable. As Israel consulted with the US before storming the ship, it seems the US is also somehow involved in the incident. They are against the establishment of an international inquiry commission because it will put Israel in a difficult position,” he concluded.
Trimble ‘utterly biased’
David Trimble, one of the two foreign observers on the Israeli government investigative commission, is reportedly a pro-Israeli activist and known for his staunch support of Israeli policies.
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-213158-102-mistrustful-of-israels-probe-turkey-insists-on-intl-inquiry.html
how they can utter all these sentences with a straight face is not only beyong comprehension but with absolute contempt...
