ANKARA
The Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman said that Israel's apology to Turkey is a victory.
Karman, who was granted Turkish citizenship last year said, she was honored to represent Yemeni and Turkish culture.
Karman told Anadolu Agency Correspondent, "Israel's apology to Turkey is a victory. This was also a admittance that the Mavi Marmara incident was a mistake. As well (Israel) needs to admit that the embargo against Gaza is a mistake. We hoped that the embargo against Gaza lifted up and Israel give the Palestinian their rights back."
Karman called the Syrian revolution "a big revolution" and added that the Syrian people succeeded the revolution on the day, they choose to change their conditions.
"The Syrian people advance to victory day by day. I am happy that Turkey helps Syria and think that Arabs and Turks had to play a more important role in the Syrian issue. Even though there is conspiracy against the Syrian revolution, the revolution will be successful."
"I am not worried about the Arab Spring. We will reach our aims soon. But it is not possible that we bring the dictators to fall and reached democracy in one day, one month or one year" Karman reminded.
Karman became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising as a part of the Arab Spring and called by Yemeni the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution" and is the second Muslim woman who wins a Nobel Prize.
Reporting by Ali Ozturk
