Ashkenazi: If I can no longer visit Turkey, that’s a price I’ll pay

Former IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi responded on Monday to the decision of a Turkish court to charge him and three other former senior Israeli military commanders with murder for the Mavi Marmara incident of 2010, saying he was “certain that, at the end of the day, common sense will prevail.’

At the same time, Ashkenazi was defiant, saying that he had chosen all along to defend the soldiers involved in the takeover of the Turkish ship that tried to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, and that “if that means that I can no longer visit Turkey, that’s a price I’ll pay.”