Greece, Israel agree on military cooperation

Turkish PM plans to visit Gaza in mid-Sept in terms of anti-Israel campaign-paper Israel says no official apology to Turkey over flotilla deaths in 2010 Israel halts handover of militants' bodies to Palestinians Lieberman's UN speech not agreed with Netanyahu Multimedia Incident with the Freedom Flotilla. Israel Defense Forces video The Defense Minister of Greece Panos Beglitis and his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak signed a memorandum on military cooperation in Jerusalem on Sunday, the Greek Ministry of Defense reported. The contents of the memorandum is undisclosed. Panos Beglitis said that the two governments are intend to cooperate closely. "Our relations with Israel are not under the influence of the current condition," said Beglitis. Greece has recently improved relations with Israel, exploiting the rift between Tel Aviv and Ankara over the Israeli attack on the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla last year. The raid killed nine people, all Turkish nationals.