Turkey and Israel resume full diplomatic relations

                      

Ankara - Turkey and Israel reached on Monday an agreement to resume diplomatic relations and exchange ambassadors as soon as possible, said the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.

The agreement seals the reconciliation between the two countries after six years of tensions caused by the Israeli attack on Gaza small fleet, which killed 10 Turkish activists

The text will be signed on Tuesday by Undersecretary of Turkish Foreign Affairs, Feridun Sinirlioglu, currently meeting in Rome with the Israeli delegation, and will then be approved by parliament, and ambassadors may resume its activity, said Yildirim.

This exchange of ambassadors could happen "within weeks", needed.

The Turkish leader recalled that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apologized for the attack in 2013 and confirmed that Israel will pay a total amount of US $ 20 million as compensation to attack victims' families.

Met these two conditions imposed by Turkey, which further delayed the agreement was condoning the third, lifting the Israeli blockade of Gaza, finally resolved by a relaxation that allows Turkey to send humanitarian aid and build infrastructure in the Strip.

On the same Friday will leave Turkey a vessel with 10 tons of humanitarian aid, coordinated by "AFAD" the Turkish government agency emergencies, which will land its cargo in the Israeli port of Ashdod, said Yildirim.

Also, soon to be completed the construction of a hospital of 200 beds in Gaza and will start public housing projects and the creation of an industrial zone in Jenin in the West Bank.

The Prime Minister stressed that, in any case, Turkey will continue to defend the right of the Palestinians to establish their own state.

"We have spoken with the families, if necessary will come back to talk," he said, in apparent reference to a statement of the Turkish NGO IHH, the organizer of the Flotilla 2010, which criticized the agreement, lamenting that you want to end the trial in Istanbul against senior Israeli positions responsible for the attack.

Yildirim has not confirmed nor denied this extreme and merely repeated that will talk to the families.

He rejected also wants humanitarian aid sent to the port of Ashdod amounts to "recognize the embargo" and insisted that it is a "humanitarian tragedy" in which Turkey proposes to "help people, no matter what others say ".

The Prime Minister stressed that, in any case, Turkey will continue to defend the right of the Palestinians to establish their own state.