Abstract
On 31 May 2010, Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish citizens aboard the Mavi Marmara, the flagship vessel of a humanitarian flotilla headed for besieged Gaza. The Israeli attack evoked international outrage, which caused Israel to appoint an official commission of inquiry chaired by former Israeli Supreme Court Judge Jacob Turkel. In January 2011, the Turkel Commission released a 300 page report that allegedly established what happened in the course of the Israeli assault. In fact, and unsurprisingly, the report was a grotesque whitewash of Israeli actions. Nonetheless this mendacious report effectively shielded Israel from further international scrutiny. A panel of inquiry created by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to resolve differences between Turkey and Israel over the Mavi Marmara killings “fully associated itself” - in the bitter words of the Turkish representative on the panel - with the the Turkel report’s findings. To date, no independent researcher has exposed in detail the dishonesty and fraud of the Turkel report. The purpose of my article is to fill this gap
References
- Joy Gordon, “Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions”, Cambridge, 2010.
- Moustafa Bayoumi, “Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/ Palestine Conflict”, Newyork, Haymarket Books, 2010.
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Abstract
31 Mayıs 2010 tarihinde kuşatma altındaki Gazze’ye yardım götürmekte olan Mavi Marmara gemisinde bulunan 9 Türk vatandaşı İsrailli komandolar tarafından öldürüldü. Söz konusu eylem uluslararası arenada şiddetli tepki uyandırdı. Bu doğrultuda İsrail, Yargıtay hakimi Jacob Turkel’i hadiseye ilişkin tahkikat yapılması amacıyla görevlendirdi ve resmi bir soruşturma komisyonu kurularak söz konusu olaya ilişkin rapor hazırlanmasını istedi. Temmuz 2011’de Turkel liderliğindeki soruşturma komisyonu tarafından hazırlanan 300 sayfalık rapor, gerçekte ne olduğundan ziyade saldırıya dair İsrail tarafından kurgulanmış sözde nedenler üzerine inşa edildi. Hiç de sürpriz olmayacak şekilde Turkel Raporu, İsrail’in alışılageldiği üzere eylemlerini örtbas edişine tipik bir grotesk örnek teşkil etti. Bununla birlikte söz konusu asılsız rapor, gelecekte karşılaşılması kuvvetle muhtemel uluslararası tahkikatlere karşı bir savunma kalkanı vazifesi görmek üzere hazırlandı. Nitekim BM Genel Sekreteri Ban Ki-moon tarafından Mavi Marmara cinayetleri konusunda Türkiye ve İsrail arasındaki anlaşmazlıkların giderilmesi amacıyla oluşturulan soruşturma heyeti de Turkel Raporundaki tezlere arka çıkmıştır. Bugüne kadar hiç bir bağımsız araştırmacı, gerçeği yansıtmayan ve seviyesizce kurgulanmış Turkel raporunun detaylarını ortaya çıkaran bir çalışma yapmadı. Bu makaledeki temel amaç bu alandaki boşluğu doldurabilmektir
References
- Joy Gordon, “Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions”, Cambridge, 2010.
- Moustafa Bayoumi, “Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/ Palestine Conflict”, Newyork, Haymarket Books, 2010.
- Norman G. Finkelstein, “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History”, University of California Press, 2008.
- Yoram Dinstein, “The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict”, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- “Cashless in Gaza?,” Wikileaks, 3 November 2008; http://tinyurl. com/2wfdrdp
- “Israeli Inquiry into Gaza Flotilla Deaths No More Than a ‘Whitewash”, 28 January 2011; http://www.amnesty.nl/nieuwsportaal/pers/israeli- inquiry-gaza-flotilla-deaths-no-more-whitewash
- Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Government Establishes Independent Public Commission”, 14 June 2010; http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ AboutIsrael/State/Law/Pages/Independent_Public_Commission_ Maritime_Incident_31-May-2010.aspx
- “Partial List of Items Prohibited/Permitted in the Gaza Strip”, May 2010; http://gisha.org/publication/1632
- “Public Commission to Examine the Maritime Incident of 31 May 2010, The Turkel Commission Report, Part One”, January 2011; http:// www.turkel-committee.gov.il/files/wordocs/8808report-eng.pdf
- “Report on the Israeli Attack on the Humanitarian Aid Convoy to Gaza on 31 May 2010”, Turkish National Commission of Inquiry, February 2011; http://www.mfa.gov.tr/data/Turkish%20Report%20Final%20 -%20UN%20Copy.pdf
- “U.S. Department of State, ‘Daily Press Briefing’”, 24 January 2011; http:// tinyurl.com/4ze4r2j
Details
| Primary Language | Turkish |
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| Journal Section | Makaleler |
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| Publication Date | December 1, 2014 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2014 Volume: 1 Issue: 2 |
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