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ANKARA, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Turkey and Israel have reached a deal to normalise ties and the two countries will exchange ambassadors, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Monday, after a six-year diplomatic rift.
Yildirim said the deal would be signed on Tuesday. It ends a row over an Israeli raid on an aid flotilla that killed 10 Turkish pro-Palestinian activists who tried to sail to the blockaded Gaza Strip in 2010.
Yildirim noted that Israel agreed to pay out 20 million U.S. dollars to the bereaved and injured in compensation.
Under the deal, Turkey will deliver humanitarian aid and other non-military products to Gaza with a first shipment of 10,000 tons of aid being sent next Friday, he said.
