The Kurdish Freedom Flotilla is a plan launched by the National Union of Israeli Students to send a flotilla to assist the Kurdish people of Turkey following the Gaza flotilla raid.
According to Boaz Torporovsky, President of the Student Union, the plan is to send a flotilla of ships "to deliver much-needed humanitarian assistance to the Kurds of Turkey." Torporovsky describes the plan as a reaction to the Free Gaza flotillas. He told a reporter that, "There’s a lot of hypocrisy in the world. Turkey, which leads the campaign against Israel and makes all sorts of threats, is the same Turkey that carried out a holocaust and murdered an entire nation of Armenians, and oppresses a minority larger than the Palestinians - the Kurds - who deserve a state, who have demanded a state for longer than the State of Israel has existed."
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