ANKARA: Turkey sent two medical planes to Israel early Friday to bring back five of its nationals wounded during the Jewish state’s botched assault on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, the Anatolia news agency said.
The five, all men, are the last Turkish pro-Palestinian activists held in Israel after Monday’s raid, in which at least nine people died, Anatolia quoted officials as saying.
The bodies of the nine — eight Turks and a US citizen of Turkish origin — were returned to Turkey on Thursday, along with 19 wounded and 450 activists rounded up during the commando raid.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that no activists were now missing, contradicting a claim to that effect by one of the flotilla’s main organizers.
