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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11585
Israel's Efforts to Normalize Relations with Turkey Falter
(Israel Hayom) Shlomo Cesana - Israeli government officials have signaled that Israel's efforts to normalize its diplomatic relations with Turkey have failed, even after Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized for the deaths of Turkish citizens during the Marmara incident in 2010. The two issues that caused talks between the two countries to deadlock were the amount of compensation the Turkish victims' families would be paid and the very definition of the restitution payment. Turkey insisted on calling the payments "punitive damages" and not "compensation."