Shockingly, Obama was the one who brokered this deal.

Via JPost:

Turkey is unwilling to accept Israel’s compensation for the Mavi Marmara raid, saying Jerusalem views it as an ex gratia payment and not as a result of a wrongful act, Turkish daily Hürriyet reported on Wednesday.

“In our first meeting [the Israelis] showed no opposition to this. But in the second meeting, they intended to give an ex gratia payment as a form of reparation because they fear compensation [as a result of their wrongful act] will set an example for other cases,” Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said, according to Hürriyet.

Reconciliation talks between Turkey and Israel have reached a stalemate after only three meetings in April and in May.

Previous reports said the deadlock in talks was a result of disagreements over the amount of money Israel would pay in compensation to the families of the nine Turks that were killed aboard the Gaza flotilla.

Arinc insisted the amount of money was not the contested issue, but rather Israel’s acknowledgement of the incident as a wrongful act. He added that talks about the amount of money cannot take place before Turkey’s other two conditions – for Israel to acknowledge the loss of lives in the raid, and to lift its blockade on Gaza – are met.