Flotilla

Hey everyone, most of you have probably heard about the flotilla bringing aid to the Gaza strip being attacked (maybe "stormed" is a better word?) international waters. The people killed were mostly Turkish, so you can imagine Turkey's reaction to this. I was at work all day so I didn't really know what had happened, but on my bus ride home I saw huge crowds of people carrying flags and there was an abnormal amount of traffic for that time of the night. I learned today they were all protesting outside of the Israeli consulate which was in the area I was taking my bus through - and apparently there were 10,000 people there! I'm really lucky I wasn't in worse traffic and that the crowd didn't get out of control. I'm not really interested in giving an editorial with my thoughts and two cents worth but I just wanted to let you know I'm okay and that there have been some reactions - lots of Turkish and Palestinian flags last night. This is unfortunate for the relations between Turkey and Israel because I think they were already a little tense. Anyway, I'll let you know if anything happens but I'm fine, don't worry!