1) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ship Mavi Marmara carried extremists.

2) OBJECTIVE: In the Marmara earthquake, which occurred on August 17, 1999, 639 people had renal complications, and 477 needed hemodialysis treatment because of acute renal failure due to crush injury.

3) The Mavi Marmara led two other Turkish ships out of the Turkish Mediterranean port of Antalya. Their destination - the Gaza Strip which is under an Israeli blockade.

4) Then came the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident: Israelis completely bungled the operation.

5) Marmara is your mother and you'll always be our son.

6) Istanbul lies between the Sea and Sea of Marmara of Bosporus and Golden Horn Bay.

7) Situated on a highly visible site, the 60-storey tower will offer panoramic views stretching from the Bosphorus Strait in the west to the Princes' Islands and the Sea of Marmara to the south.

8) The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European from Asian Turkey.

9) The Turkish Straits connect the Black and Aegean Seas and comprise the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles.

10) The rooftop terrace has both glass-enclosed and open-air dining tables with views of the Sea of Marmara.

11) OLD tyres are notoriously difficult to recycle, and often end up in landfills, but researchers at the Tubitak Marmara Research Centre in Gebze, Turkey,(http:///marmara.html) have come up with a novel way to deal with them.

12) Bosporus(the Strait of Istanbul) links the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is one of the most dangerous and busiest waterways in the world and has geopolitical, strategic and economic importance.

13) This is the railway that comes up from Arabia to the Sea of Marmara opposite Istanbul.

14) The city lies on both sides of the Bosporus Channel and the Sea of Marmara, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.

15) The largest city of Turkey, in the northwest part of the country on both sides of the Bosporus at its entrance into the Sea of Marmara.

16) Istanbul lies between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara, forming Strait of Bosporus and Golden Horn Bay.

17) First it was warning shots, but when the Mavi Marmara wouldn't stop, these warnings turned into an attack.

18) 000 apartments were built to benefit victims left homeless after the Marmara earthquake.

19) One of the returnees was Nilufer Cetin who was traveling with her one-year-old child on the Mavi Marmara. She described the attack to reporters.

20) And then there are relations with Israel, which have never recovered after the Israeli army's killing of eight Turks and one Turkish-American aboard a Gaza-bound ship, the Mavi Marmara, last year.