‘We made them apologize’: Israel-Turkey rapprochement

March 25, 2013

There was plenty of crowing in Turkish newspapers over the weekend, following Friday’s official U.S.-brokered apology from Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel’s killing of nine Turkish citizens on board the Mavi Marmara in 2010. Below is a flavour of some of the less sophisticated front page reactions available on newsstands March 23.

A subtle combination of words and images here from the tabloid Posta. Headline: ‘You are great Turkey’

Yeni Şafak: ‘For the Gaza martyrs: We made them apologize’ (Spot the difference with Star from the same day: ‘He made them apologize’).

Yeni Şafak: ‘For the Gaza martyrs: We made them apologize’ (Compare with Star from the same day: ‘He made them apologize’)

Hürriyet: ‘Apology victory’

Takvim: ‘Israel came to heel’

And the view from the orthodox left, from March 25: ‘Kiss, make up, go to war’, referring to Obama’s pressuring of Netanyahu to apologize, helped by Turkey and Israel’s apparently similar perspectives on the Syrian civil war.

And the view from the orthodox left, March 25’s Sol: ‘Kiss, make up, go to war’, referring to Obama’s pressuring of Netanyahu to apologize, assisted by Turkey and Israel’s apparently similar perspectives on the Syrian civil war.

Posted by William Armstrong
Filed in Turkey, Turkish media, Turkish newspapers, Turkish politics, Turkish press review
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Hürriyet newspaper, Israel, Mavi Marmara, Posta newspaper, Sol newspaper, Takvim newspaper, Turkey-Israel relations, Turkish press, Yeni Şafak newspaper

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