Turkey says 36 citizens detained by Israel from Gaza-bound flotilla to return home

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The plane carrying 137 activists, 36 of whom were Turkish citizens and who had set out to break the Israeli blockade with the Sumud Flotilla and were detained by the Israeli navy three days ago, landed in Istanbul.

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Turkey announced that 36 of its citizens should return to the country this afternoon, on a special flight, after the intervention by the Israeli forces of the international fleet of assistance to Gaza. "We hope that 36 of our citizens who were on board the Global Sumud fleet, intercepted by the Israeli forces in international waters, will return to our country this afternoon on a special flight," said the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs spok…