Turkey has sent 2 ambulance planes to Israel for 5 more wounded Turkish activists
By APFriday, June 4, 2010
Turkey sends 2 ambulance planes to Israel
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s health ministry says it has dispatched two ambulance planes to Israel to bring home the last five Turkish activists who were wounded by Israeli soldiers in a raid on an aid ship.
Some of the nine victims have already been buried here but some others including the youngest of the killed — 19-year-old high school student Furkan Dogan, who had dual U.S.-Turkish citizenship — will be buried Friday.
The health ministry says it is not clear when the ambulances, carrying Turkish surgeons, will return from Israel. At least 24 people have been wounded.
Turkish leaders have said Israel’s bloody raid Monday to stop the aid flotilla that attempted to break the blockade on Gaza inflicted a heavy blow on its ties with its closest Muslim ally — Turkey.
