Turkish PM Erdogan announces Ankara's ships will escort aid vessels headed to Gaza. Jerusalem: Rhetoric concerning but will not impact Gaza blockade. Meanwhile, Ankara-Cairo ties get commercial boost in form of military, trade contracts and naval maneuvers

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Latest Update: 09.09.11, 00:34 / Israel News

Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Al-Jazeera television on Thursday.

"Turkish warships, in the first place, are authorized to protect our ships that carry humanitarian aid to Gaza," Erdogan said in the interview. "From now on, we will not let these ships to be attacked by Israel, as what happened with the Freedom Flotilla."

Erdogan also said that Turkey has taken steps to "stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean."

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor responded to the Turkish premier' statement by saying: "This is a statement well-worth not commenting on."

Are you kidding ? Do you really want to go to war for the Palestinians?

Let me be perfectly blunt, the only reason for Turkey under Erdogan getting ready to walk off the cliff is that the Turkish military has failed to keep radical Islam out of the government. We can only hope and pray the military can clean the Turkish house before a disaster happens.