Erdogan Pledges new sanctions on Israel

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said his government will announce new steps to punish Israel unless Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologizes for the killing of nine Turks last year in an Israeli commando raid at sea. "Because of its political aims in the region, Israel has lost Turkey''s partnership," he told reporters yesterday in Ankara. "This process will be followed by very different sanctions," he added during a joint press conference with the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, following the third one-day Turkey-Spain summit.