Turks protest raid

ISTANBUL - Thousands of people angered by an Israeli raid on an aid ship that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists marched through Istanbul on Saturday, demanding Turkey cut economic ties with the Jewish state.

Protesters waved Turkish and Palestinian flags and carried signs with the photographs of the dead activists.

They demanded a boycott of Israeli products and called on Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's goverment to impose sanctions on the Jewish state.