Israel's Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold said on Monday that Israel seeks to normalize ties with Turkey, according to various media reports."Israel has always strived for stable relations with Turkey and is constantly examining ways to achieve that goal," Gold reportedly said. Gold had said back in August he was "hopeful that in the not too distant future Israel and Turkey will find a way to reestablish their relationship."President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan earlier on Sunday signaled a normalization period between the countries. Speaking to journalists during his trip back from Turkmenistan, Erdoğan said: "This normalization process would be good for us, Israel, Palestine and the entire region. The region definitely needs this.""I don't believe the Israeli public is pleased with the current state of relations. We need to consider the interests of the people of the region and introduce peace," he said.The president, however, repeated Turkey's three preconditions for any thaw. He said that out of Turkey's three conditions, which are an apology for the 2010 Mavi Marmara massacre of Turkish activists by Israeli forces, compensation for the victims' families and an end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip, only the first one was fulfilled. The Mavi Marmara attack that froze ties between the countries happened when a second flotilla organized by the international Free Gaza Movement and Turkish nongovernmental organization Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and known as the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, was raided by Israeli forces in international waters in 2010. Ten were killed and 55 were wounded in the attack on the flotilla's main ship, the Mavi Marmara. In March 2013, Netanyahu expressed his regret for the Mavi Marmara killings over the phone next to Obama who brokered the deal. Even though the phone conversation opened a door to negotiations, the negotiations were later stalled. Israel agreed to increase reparations for the victims to $20 million and a draft of an agreement between the two states was written in February 2014.