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DAMASCUS | Mon May 31, 2010 9:35am EDT

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria asked Monday for an emergency Arab League meeting to discuss what it described as Israeli aggression on Gaza-bound international aid ships.

More than 10 people were killed Monday when Israeli commandos intercepted the vessels, which included ships flying Turkish flags.

"Syria's representative to the Arab league has submitted a formal memo to the League requesting it to convene," the official Syrian news agency said.

The government organized demonstrations in several Syrian cities and officials gathered in front of the Turkish embassy in Damascus to show solidarity with Turkey, whose citizens were among those abroad the ships.

Syria separately issued a joint statement with Lebanon condemning "the savage Israeli attack on civilians" following a meeting between President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri in Damascus.

Syria has sought to improve ties with Turkey in the last two years. It also hosts members of Hamas, an Islamist group that has ruled the Gaza strip since it won a brief civil war in the territory against supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction in 2007.

The Arab League, which is based in Cairo, has endorsed indirect peace talks between Abbas's Palestinian Authority and Israel that started last month. Syria opposed the talks but said it did not take action to block "Arab consensus."

(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis; Editing by Maria Golovnina)
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WhosOnFirst wrote:
As this happened in international waters, this should be considered an act of war against the Turkish people. Turkey should invoke the NATO pack of common defense and ask the other NATO countries to join it in embargoing and dismantling this terrorist, squatter state. It has proven time and again that it intends to ethnically cleanse the holy land and that it does not intend to stay within the bounds of humanity, or international human law. Consider its attempt to transfer nuclear weapons and technology to South Africa when it was an apatite terrorist state.

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