SA journalist safe, on her way to Turkey
Date 2010/6/3 10:40:49 | Topic: South Africa
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SABC
Cape Town radio journalist, Gadija Davids, is on her way to Turkey. Davids was part of a team of 600 people on board a flotilla ship that was taking aid to Gaza, when Israeli forces raided it.
Nine people died in the attack. Her mother, Magboeba Davids says she is not sure when her daughter will be back home.
"At the moment as we speak she is flying to Turkey and also the Turkish government actually sent it emergency planes to fetch all those detainees and until she lands in Istanbul - we will know when she will be arriving back in South Africa,"says Magboeba.
Meanwhile, hundred protested against Israel in the home city of a Turkish activist who died during raid on Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla boat.
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Diyarbakir today, protesting against the Israeli flotilla raid in which nine activists died, including Turkish pro-Palestinian campaigner Ali Aydar Bengi.
Outraged protesters chanted anti-Israeli slogans, while many paid respects to Bengi, who was born in the south-eastern Turkey city.
The incident provoked widespread condemnation and the United Nations called for an impartial investigation to determine what happened as Israeli forces boarded the ship where the killings occurred. – Additional reporting by Reuters
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