President Obama arrived in this strategically important desert kingdom Friday, leaving Israel after bringing together two estranged regional powers that he has worked for years to reunite.
Before Obama concluded his visit to Israel, he organized a call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been among Israel’s sharpest critics in recent years, largely over Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip.
According to two senior administration officials traveling with Obama, Netanyahu apologized to Erdogan during the call, acknowledging “operational mistakes” during a deadly raid on a ship bound from Turkey for the Gaza Strip with a delivery of humanitarian aid.
Obama has asked Netanyahu to issue such an apology to Erdogan, an Islamist politician, since the June 2010 incident, when Israeli commandos seeking to block the Mavi Marmara from reaching Gaza killed eight Turkish citizens and one American of dual nationality on board.
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