Ankara sees no normalization of ties with Israel unless its conditions to end the blockade of the Gaza Strip and compensation for the deaths of nine Turkish activists are met, presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said at a press conference in Ankara on Monday. Kalın reiterated that Israel must meet Ankara's three conditions in order to normalize relations between the two countries and that Turkey will not take a step back regarding the Palestinian cause in talks with Israel. "Turkey will continue to play its role until a two-state solution is reached and the Palestinian people have their own state. Permanent peace cannot be achieved in the region without resolving the Palestinian issue" Kalın said.Ankara has three conditions to restore ties with Israel – an apology from Israel for the Mavi Marmara raid, compensation for the families of those killed in the raid and the lifting of Israel's eight-year blockade on the Gaza Strip.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already apologized for the raid and there have been reports that an agreement on conditions for compensation was sought between the two countries. The blockade of the Gaza Strip remains the most crucial part of Ankara's list of demands.Speaking at the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) parliamentary group meeting last week, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said: "Turkey will stand by Gaza until its children are liberated and will not abandon any oppressed people."Explaining that reconciliatory talks between Ankara and Tel Aviv continue, Davutoğlu said: "Nobody can question our sensitivity to the Palestine issue. Nobody will test our sensitivity concerning Palestine. We will carry out all the talks in favor of Palestinians.""Those claiming Turkey is forgetting the people of Gaza and is putting aside its support for Palestine to get closer to Israel are carrying out a defamation campaign [against us]," he said, and added: "Let alone forgetting about Gaza in negotiations, we do not even forget about it in our dreams at night. We will not forget Gaza, Palestine, Jerusalem."Tel Aviv is maintaining its own firm stance on not removing the eight-year blockade on Gaza. "I already said that once the compensation and the embargo problems were resolved, the normalization process can start. 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," Davutoğlu said.Kalın also commented on Russia's presence in neighboring Syria, and said that Russia does not fight Daesh and has made this clear by supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. He said that Daesh was used as an excuse to preserve the Assad regime, which is accused of killing over 400,000 civilians in Syria. He argued that the locations the Assad regime provided to Russia to strike Daesh targets have no relation with their positions.Kalın also said that Turkey actively participates in the coalition against Daesh and has deported over 2,800 suspects. Previously, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that only 10 percent of Russian airstrikes target Daesh while the remaining attacks target Turkmens and other Muslims fighting the Assad regime.