Mavi Marmara pull out of Israel

Haifa, Israel  Turkish passenger ship that became the center of deadly violence during the raid against the Israeli navy ships aim assistance Gaza Strip Israel pulled out of port, on Thursday, an AFP correspondent said.Mavi Marmara taken out from the port of Haifa by a large Turkish tugboat sent to bring back the ship.Two other ships were also detained by the navy during the attack on May 31 would also be withdrawn from the port of Ashdod, southern Israel, on Thursday, the defense ministry said.

Repatriation of the ships were made after a decision taken by the political leaders after a request from Ankara, the ministry said in a statement.”Three Turkish tugs will arrive in Israel today. The crew they will receive three ships moored in Israel along with personal equipment on top of existing ships,” the ministry said, without explaining when the transfer is made. The ships were part of a fleet of six ships which attempted to penetrate the Israeli naval blockade against the Gaza Strip on 31 May. Unclear whether the other three ships were still in Israeli ports.The ship is also believed to aid Rachel Corrie, was arrested at an Israeli port, but the legal steps taken to set him free.Israel became the international spotlight after deadly attacks against aid ships.

Israeli commandos raided ships in the fleet assistance to the Gaza Strip on May 31, which killed nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists in the attack on one ship.Israel-Turkey relations plunged to its lowest level since the two countries reached a strategic partnership in the 1990s due to the incident.

Turkey summoned its ambassador from Tel Aviv and canceled three planned military exercises after the raid. Turkey also twice rejected the Israeli request for military aircraft using the airspace.Severe violence in the pre-dawn raid Monday (31 / 5) by Israeli troops occurred on the boat Turkey, Mavi Marmara, who led the fleet of aid to Gaza.Israel argued that the passenger-passenger ship was attacked the troops, but the organizers claimed that the fleet of the Israeli troops started shooting as soon as they landed.

After the attack, Egypt, who reached peace with Israel in 1979, it opened the Rafah border to allow aid convoys into Gaza – widely seen as an effort to counter critics of the Egyptian role in the blockade.Cairo, in coordination with Israel, allowing only limited in its border crossing since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.

Under increasing pressure, Israel then launched an investigation along with two international observers for the attack. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon encourages a separate investigation into the UN with the participation of Israel and Turkey.Israel also relax the blockade of Gaza by allowing the majority of civilian goods into the coastal territory. Gaza Strip, a densely populated coastal regions, blockaded by Israel and Egypt after Hamas to power nearly three years ago.

Group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June of 2007 after defeating Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a deadly battle for a few days.Since then, these poor coastal dibloklade by Israel. Any Palestinian entity into two separate areas – the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and West Bank under Abbas government.The AFP report, the European Union, Israel and the U.S. enter into the Hamas terrorist organization list.(AFP)

U.S. sent two brothers Uighurs detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Switzerland

Beijing – China expressed anger and strong opposition Thursday after the U.S. sent two brothers Uighurs detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Switzerland. The announcement about the transfer of two Uighur men were delivered by the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday.

Beijing in the past demanded that the Uighurs held at Guantanamo were sent back to China. The U.S. government says can not do that because those people will face torture, and for several months to find countries willing to accept them. “We strongly reject U.S. measures to protect the suspects in a third country, and oppose any country that receives them,” said the spokesperson of China Foreign Ministry Qin Gang told a news conference.

“We have sent our strong protest to the countries concerned,” Qin added. The two people who moved to Switzerland it is Bahtiyar Arkin Mahmud and Mahmud, their lawyer said. The men were arrested by the U.S. government during the Afghanistan war, launched after the attacks, 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States.

Muslim Uighur people and a native of Xinjiang, far western China.

In the ethnic violence in July 2009, the Uighur people of China attacked the majority Han people in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s provincial capital, after falling to the streets to protest the attack on Uyghur workers at a factory in southern China in June that killed two Uighur men.

Beijing says, at least 197 people were killed in riots on July 5 in Urumqi between people and the Uighur minority group Enik dominant Han China. More than 1,600 people were also injured in the riot. Violence experienced by the Uighur people has led to a wave of protest marches in various cities of the world such as Ankara, Berlin, Canberra and Istanbul after the riots.

Uyghur people speak Turkish and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the most harsh criticism and calls asking what is happening in Xinjiang as “a kind of massacre”.

Uyghur people in exile claimed that China’s security forces to react too much for peaceful protest and to use deadly force. Eight million Uighur people, who have more contact with their neighbors in central Asia than with the Han people of China, amounted to less than half the population of Xinjiang. Together Tibet, Xinjiang is one of the most vulnerable areas of politics and the two regions, the government of China tried to control religious life and culture growing promising economy and prosperity.

Beijing does not want to lose control of the region, which borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, and has large oil reserves and is the largest natural gas producer in China. However, the minority population has long complained that China’s Han majority rake profits from government subsidies, while making local residents feel like outsiders in their own country.

Beijing says that the riots, the worst in the region in recent years, the work of separatist groups abroad, who want to create an independent region for the Muslim Uighur minority. The groups deny these violent and manage to say, the riots are the result of accumulated anger against the government policies and economic domination of Han China.(Reuters)