Remembering the Mavi Marmara victims

Last month, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced a deal to normalise relations between Turkey and Israel. Relations had been acrimonious since the 2010 raid by the Israeli navy on activists aboard the Mavi Marmara ship, part of a flotilla seeking to deliver aid and humanitarian support in defiance of a blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed by Israel and Egypt since 2007. The Mavi Marmara was owned and run by the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, a Turkish NGO. Eight Turkish nationals and an American-Turkish activist were shot dead during the storming of the boat, while another Turkish national later succumbed to his injuries. Dozens...