Islam Times reports from Presstv: "The situation in Gaza
has to change," Cameron said on Tuesday during a joint press
conference with Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan in Ankara.
Israeli has kept the 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip
under a strict blockade for over three years and has refused
the entry of food, medicine, fuel and other essential
supplies into the coastal territory.
"Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions.
Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison
camp," the British premier said.
Cameron criticized the Israeli attack on Gaza-bound Freedom
Flotilla in May which killed at least nine activists and
left dozens of others injured.
"The Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla was completely
unacceptable. And I have told [Israeli] Prime Minister
[Benjamin] Netanyahu we will expect the Israeli inquiry to
be swift, transparent and rigorous."
The British prime minister also expressed support for
Turkey's bid for EU membership, vowing to "pave the road
from Ankara to Brussels," The Daily Mail reported.
"When I think about what Turkey has done to defend Europe as
a NATO ally, and what Turkey is doing today in Afghanistan
alongside our European allies, it makes me angry that your
progress towards EU membership can be frustrated in the way
it has been," Cameron said.
Although trade between the UK and Turkey has fallen within
the last year, while it has increased with France, Cameron
pledged to remain Turkey's "strongest possible advocate for
EU membership" and urged Turkey to "push forward
aggressively" with EU reforms, AFP reported.