Turkey's foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu renewed on Saturday calls for the Zionist entity to apologize from Turkey and offer compensation for its raid on a Gaza Strip-bound aid flotilla in May in which nine Turkish citizens were martyred.
Davutoglu told reporters that Turkey has the intention of making peace with Israel. However, he accused the Israeli government of not reciprocating Turkish overtures and said "nothing can cover up" the killing of Turkish citizens.
The Turkish FM, who spoke on the eve of the return of the raided Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, to Istanbul, said that Turkey wants to both preserve relations and defend our rights.
In an interview published last Sunday in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, US President Barack Obama urged Turkey and Israel to "do everything they can to repair their relations."
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