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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Turkey Summons US Diplomat



Turkey has summoned a top US diplomat to protest against Washington's interference in a UN mandate probing Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

A Turkish diplomat said on Wednesday that Doug Silliman, the deputy chief of the mission at the US Embassy in Ankara, was called to the Foreign Ministry on Monday "for a reprimand" following comments by the US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice about the fact-finding mission.

Shortly after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that a four-member committee would begin investigating the deadly attack in which nine civilian activists were killed by Israeli commandos, Rice said that the UN inquiry was "not a substitute" for national investigations being carried out by Israel and Turkey.'

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