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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Turkey wants Israel apology but Israel rejects demand Reuters - Tuesday, July 6 Send IM Story Print By Ibon Villelabeitia ANKARA - Turkey's foreign minister was quoted on Monday as saying that Ankara would cut ties with Israel unless it apologised or accepted an international inquiry into its deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza. But a Turkish government official told Reuters the minister's words had been misrepresented. The official said Ankara's position was that it would be very difficult or impossible to repair bilateral ties with the Jewish state unless Ankara's previously stated demands were met. Israel said on Monday it had no intention of issuing a formal apology to Turkey. The public exchange between the two once close U.S. regional allies followed talks last week by Turkish and Israeli officials aimed at mending fences. "Israel has three paths ahead: It either apologises, or accepts the findings from an international commission investigating the raid, or Turkey will cut off ties," Hurriyet daily quoted Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as saying. The report did not clarify the nature of the ties he was referring to. Once Israel's closest Muslim ally, Turkey has said several times it wants Israel to apologise over the May 31 raid, pay compensation, agree to a U.N. inquiry into the incident and lift the blockade of 1.6 million Palestinians living in Gaza Strip. The Turkish government official said on Monday those demands still stand. The two countries had forged a friendship in the 1990s largely based on military cooperation and intelligence sharing, but trade ties have also thrived. Israel has rejected a proposal by U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon for an international investigation and has set up its own inquiry. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said his country has no intention of apologising. "We don't have any intention to apologise. We think that the opposite is true," he told reporters during a visit to Latvia. Davutoglu met Israel's Trade and Industry Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer last week in Brussels in a bid to repair ties. Turkey said then it conveyed its demands to Israel but Davutoglu told Hurriyet: "We will not wait forever for an answer." "It will be enough if their own commission rules that the raid was unfair and they apologise in line with the commission's verdict, but we have to see the verdict first," Davutoglu said. Nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists were killed when Israeli commandos stormed the Turkish-flagged ship Mavi Marmara as part of an operation to stop a relief aid flotilla headed for Israeli-blockaded Gaza. Turkey withdrew its ambassador to Israel, cancelled joint military operations and barred Israeli military aircraft from Turkish airspace after the incident. U.S. WANTS ALLIES TO PATCH UP DISPUTE The United States wants Israel and Turkey, whose earlier friendship had benefited U.S. policy in the Middle East, to patch up the dispute. President Barack Obama is due to meet Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Tuesday. Israel said its commandos opened fire only after a boarding party was attacked by activists wielding clubs and knives. Israel says the Gaza blockade is needed to choke off the supply of arms to Hamas Islamists who rule the enclave. Relations between Israel and Turkey have been on a downward spiral since Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke out forcefully against an Israeli offensive in Gaza at the end of 2008. The two had forged a friendship in the 1990s based on military cooperation and intelligence sharing. Turkey has improved relations with neighbours such as Iran and Syria in recent years and Erdogan became a popular figure among Muslim countries for championing the Palestinian cause. Lieberman said Israel had concerns about Turkey's foreign policy, including Ankara's decision to vote against a new round of U.N. sanctions against Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme. Non-permanent members Turkey and Brazil, which had agreed with Iran to a nuclear fuel swap deal, were the only countries in the 15-member council to vote against the resolution. "We really see some real dramatic changes in their policy. But it's their right, it's their decision." 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