Turkey rejects EU mediation
We do not need mediation in any way," said Davutoglu during a televised news conference in the central province of Konya when asked about possible EU mediation in the crisis facing Israel.
The conflict has been over a year, bottomed out after Turkey expel Israeli diplomats and suspend military cooperation with Tel Aviv, following the release of a UN report which established the use of excessive force by Israeli military for the deaths of nine Turks in an assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.
"No one should put to test our seriousness," he added, noting that the issue of relations between Turkey and Israel will be discussed perhaps for the planned meeting between U.S. President, Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, outside the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.
Meanwhile, envoys of the Quartet of Middle East negotiators, which brings together EU, U.S., Russia and UN will meet today in a last-minute effort to resume peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians and prevent a dispute within United Nations, a European diplomat said yesterday.
The meeting takes place in New York two days after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would ask the full recognition for the Palestinian Territories when you go to the General Assembly this week, predicting a diplomatic row with Israel and the U.S..
