Unlike the harsh denunciations of Israel from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Barack Obama declined Tuesday to condemn the Jewish state, but he did reach out to Turkey.
The president spoke to Erdogan to express “deep condolences” over the deaths on board the ship — four of the nine dead were Turks — and to say Washington was working with Israel on the release of impounded vessels and passengers.
A senior U.S. State Department official sought to stress that the two-hour meeting in Washington on Tuesday between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was a good one between allies.
“It was not an acrimonious meeting at all,” the official said on the condition of anonymity when queried by reporters.
“The foreign minister and the secretary both reflected on the fact that we are clearly friends of Turkey, we’re friends of Israel and we will approach this as close allies and friends,” he added.
However, analyst Steven Cook said, “when it comes down to it, we are going to fall closer to the Israelis than to the Turks on a variety of issues.”
- Israeli raid ‘puts Obama stuck between a rock and a hard place’, RawStory.com, June 2, 2010.
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