Activist Bayram Kalyon, arriving back in Istanbul, had also been a passenger on the Mavi Marmara.

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He tried to shield his wife, Mavi, who was wounded in the leg.

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After the Mavi Marmara incident, aside from Turkey, South Africa was the only country to recall its ambassador from Israel.

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Glick's team filmed and distributed a video which depicted the Mavi Marmara passengers singing an original song, "We Con The World, " in a recording studio.

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As for Netanyahu, he "made it clear that the tragic results regarding the Mavi Marmara were unintentional and that Israel expresses regret over injuries and loss of life, " the Israeli government said.

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Perhaps the most remarkable revelation in the report is that up until a week before the flotilla set sail, led by the infamous Mavi Marmara, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was under the impression that he had reached a deal with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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At the same time, America has been struggling without success to repair the breach between Israel and Turkey that followed Israel's killing of eight Turks and a Turkish-American on board the Mavi Marmara when it tried to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in May last year.

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