Release of the Oknin couple from Turkey: Bennett spoke with Erdogan and thanked him

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke tonight (Thursday) with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Bennett thanked President Erdogan for his personal involvement in the return of Natalie and the Oknin rebels to Israel. The Prime Minister expressed his appreciation for the treatment of the issue on the Turkish side, at all levels, in recent days, with a view to resolving the issue. quarter of an hour.

Earlier, a few hours after being released from detention in Turkey, the couple Natalie and the Oknin rebels spoke with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. After congratulating the couple on their return to Israel, the returnees thanked the Prime Minister and the Minister for their efforts to release them from detention. At a certain point, the couple’s daughter, Shiraz, also came up to the conversation and said: “You brought my parents back to me and that’s the most important thing to me in the world. I have no words, I’ve been crazy this morning, thank you.” Lapid replied to his daughter: “In the first conversation you told me ‘think these are your parents’, so I thought it was my parents and the prime minister also thought it was his parents and that’s why everything worked out.”

At the beginning of the conversation, the couple said that “we are fine, a little excited about everything that has happened in the country. We want to tell you from the bottom of our hearts – it’s not obvious what you did. You turned worlds, you were by our side. I heard that the Honorable Minister spoke to my family every day, and also the Honorable Prime Minister. You talked to my family, you talked to my sisters, to my brother, to my daughter Shiraz, to everyone. I know the whole government has rallied, you have turned worlds for us, it is not obvious at all. We are grateful. We are strong thanks to you. “

Natalie and the Oknin rebels in their home (Photo: Yossi Aloni, Flash 90)

Foreign Minister Lapid asked Natalie how her son Ofek reacted when she entered the house: “He was happy, jumped, I jumped on him with kisses and hugs. It was amazing and unique. I am really speechless, I am proud that you are in my government, I am proud of you. You saved the world and its fullness.”

PM: “I want to tell you that you have a very special family that has shown so much responsibility and restraint during the week, we in turn have worked day and night. With the help of God and blessed be God, you are here. May you have a calm Sabbath and a calm period. The foreign minister worked very, very hard to reach this moment. “

Foreign Minister: “Listen, Shiraz is an amazing girl. This thing that a 20-year-old girl led all this. We send you a hug and love from all the people of Israel, and go to bed for about 20 hours in my opinion. I go to sleep for 20 hours.”

Finally, Bennett told the family not to forget to go to the synagogue and bless the “blessing of retribution.” Natalie: “Everything we need, without a vow we will do.”

President Yitzhak Herzog then spoke for the first time since the couple’s arrest with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The conversation lasted about ten minutes when the Turkish president spoke Turkish and the interpreter translated his words into Herzog. The President’s Office said that the conversation took place in a positive atmosphere, during which President Herzog thanked him for his personal contribution to returning the couple to Israel. Erdogan, for his part, emphasized the importance he attaches to relations with Israel.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also spoke this morning with the Oknin rebels and congratulated him on the couple’s return to Israel. Netanyahu thanked all those who were partners in their return to Israel.

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