Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday reiterated his country's condemnation of the Israeli raid on the humanitarian aid flotilla, calling the incident a "bloody massacre."

"They have to be punished for this action," Erdoğan told a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP.

Turkish PM Erdo?Ÿan says Israel 'must be punished' for raid on ship