Hurriyet published an article by Murat Yetkin devoted to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's coming visit to the Gaza Strip. During his recent visit to Turkey US Secretary of State John Kerry asked the Turkish prime minister to postpone his visit to Gaza.
"Will what U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said about the delay of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s trip to Gaza change his travel schedule? This was the question the journalist asked Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on board the night plane carrying them to Brussels for a NATO meeting on Syria the next day, April 23. Davutoglu’s answer was a simple “No,” the article reads. "And yesterday, Erdogan insisted on his trip and said he will not postpone it."
"The first round of talks in Ankara on April 22 with an Israeli delegation on compensation issues ended with consensus on the update of a text that had been agreed upon in 2011, before the dialogue collapsed without securing that Erdogan and Davutoglu would not like to go any further. But before meeting with Obama, Erdoğan might take some other steps for bettering of relations with Israel, such us upgrading diplomatic relations back into the ambassadorial level," the author writes.
The New York Times published an article by David Sanger and Jodi Rudoren. The article is headlined 'Israel Says It Has Proof That Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons.'
"Israel declared Tuesday that it had found evidence that the Syrian government repeatedly used chemical weapons last month, arguing that President Bashar al-Assad was testing how the United States and others would react and that it was time for Washington to overcome its deep reluctance to intervene in the Syrian civil war," the article reads.
"In making the declaration — which went somewhat beyond recent suspicions expressed by Britain and France — Israeli officials argued that President Assad had repeatedly crossed what President Obama said last summer would be a “red line,” the authors write.
