2 June 2010

Your Excellency Madam Serapataay,

We represent a delegation of concerned Malaysian Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) whose members are onboard the ill-fated “MV Mavi Marmara” which was seized by the Israeli navy in international waters on May 31st, 2010.

A total of 12 of our members, including two TV journalists, were onboard this vessel which was en-route to the port of Gaza, part of a flotilla of ships laden with humanitarian cargoes meant for the impoverished, sickened and malnourished people of the tiny enclave they have been calling their home for generations.

We have been instrumental in picking up the tempo for this humanitarian flotilla from your own Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH) of Turkey and we maintain a warm relationship with IHH as well as any other organisations for that matter that work towards breaking the siege over Palestine.

Our delegation before you today of the Crisis Management Team for Lifeline For Gaza in Malaysia consists of leaders of various NGOs that have united for the cause of Palestine and determined to breaking the embargo against the people of Gaza.

We are now before you, Your Excellency, to deliver these messages to your goodself, the Government of Turkey, and the people of Turkey :

That we are appalled by the manner the international media, especially television 24-hours a day, is made to spin this ghastly episode into one of Israel’s right to act as it did and to count the dead and injured as necessary collaterals

Madam Ambassador,

We have strong faith that our collaboration with IHH, in consonance with the spirit of your government itself, lends credence to this noble cause of assisting a besieged citizen called Gaza. That we, as democratic states Turkey and Malaysia, both hold in high regards mutual respect of rights of humanity for freely elected governments and people to live and determine their own fates in their own homeland. We share this view even as our brothers and sisters in Gaza live under the constant threat of murder coming from military aircraft, helicopters, drones and warships that fire at the least of pretensions of provocation.

Your Excellency, may we hereby kindly provide you with a list of our volunteers, now under the turrets of Israeli machine guns, so that your government will be able to expeditiously extract them from Israel and return them to the Malaysian Embassy in Turkey. They are;

We have no doubts whatsoever that your good office will enable the safe passage of these humanitarian volunteers from Malaysia either back to Turkey or any other friendly nations that will be willing to take them in for the interim.

On behalf of all Malaysians, especially those who have strongly supported this LL4G mission for the past year, we would like to put on record our utmost gratitude of thanks from the bottom of our hearts.

Thank you, Your Excellency

For and on behalf of:

Crisis Management Centre (CMT)
Lifeline For Gaza
(www.lifeline4gaza.org)

MR. ZULKELFI BIN MOHD NANI
CHAIRMAN
CRISIS MANAGEMENT TEAM (CMT)
LIFELINE 4 GAZA

LifeLine4Gaza (MALAYSIA)