Turkey still expects apology, compensation, end of Gaza blockade from Israel

ISTANBUL (A.A) - January 8, 2012 - Turkey's foreign minister expressed on Sunday Turkey's apology, compensation and end of Gaza blockade from Israel. Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey would maintain its stance on the Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine Turks. "There is no change in our expectations, our principles and demands are obvious and we still expect apology, compensation and end of Gaza blockade," Davutoglu said during a meeting on "Turkey in the light of international developments" in Istanbul. Davutoglu said Turkey backed a scenario in which Iraq and other regional countries united around bigger organizations instead of a scenario based on division of Iraq into smaller units. The foreign minister said Iraq should be a country where all ethnic and sectarian groups lived in peace, and Turkey focused its policy on unification not division. "Therefore, we recommend our Iraqi brothers to think about reunification and integration instead of division, and we also want to integrate more with you," Davutoglu said. Davutoglu also said Europe needed Turkish injection, which would not only bring strategic but also economic dynamism and cultural majority.