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Established in 1992 and officially registered in [[Istanbul]] in 1995, İHH provides [[humanitarian relief]] in areas of war, earthquake, [[hunger]], and conflict.<ref name=Spencer>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7790919/Gaza-flotilla-the-Free-Gaza-Movement-and-the-IHH.html |title=Gaza flotilla: the Free Gaza Movement and the İHH |author=Richard Spencer |date=31 May 2010 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]  |access-date=5 June 2010 |location=London}}</ref> The İHH holds [[Special Consultative Status]] with the [[United Nations Economic and Social Council]] since 2004<ref name="ecosoc">{{cite web|title=Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief, The |url=http://esango.un.org/civilsociety/showProfileDetail.do?method=showProfileDetails&tab=1&profileCode=2525 |publisher=NGO Branch, [[United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs]]|access-date=2 June 2010}}</ref><ref name="ecosocNGOlist">{{cite web|title=List of non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council as of 1 September 2009 | url=http://esango.un.org/paperless/content/E2009INF4.pdf |publisher=[[United Nations Economic and Social Council]] |access-date=8 June 2010}}</ref> Current president of the İHH is [[Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım]].

The İHH was owner and operator of three flotilla ships involved in the convoy intended to breach the [[Gaza blockade|blockade of Gaza]] in 2010. These ships included the [[MV Mavi Marmara|MV ''Mavi Marmara'']], a passenger vessel that served as the [[flagship]] of the convoy.<ref name="NY Times Israel Frees">{{Cite news|last=Slackman |first=Michael |work=[[The New York Times]] |title=In Bid to Quell Anger Over Raid, Israel Frees Detainees |date=3 June 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/world/middleeast/03flotilla.html |access-date=3 June 2010}}</ref><ref name="BBC Convoy Raid">{{cite news|last=Reynolds |first=Paul |work=BBC News |title=Israeli convoy raid: What went wrong?  |date=2 June 2010 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10203333.stm|access-date=2 June 2010}}</ref> As Israeli naval forces boarded the ship in order to prevent breach of the blockade, passengers attacked the boarding forces with clubs, knives and allegedly firearms. Nine passengers aboard the ''Mavi Marmara'', many of them members of the İHH,<ref name="Defiant">{{cite news|last=Champion |first=Marc |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704025304575284081264400448 |title=Turkish Charity Group Sounds Defiant Note |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=4 June 2010}}</ref> were killed<ref name=latimes>{{Cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-flotilla-20100531,0,1839736.story |author=Edmund Sanders |title=Israel criticized over raid on Gaza flotilla |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=1 June 2010 |access-date=2 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531101434/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-flotilla-20100531%2C0%2C1839736.story |archive-date=31 May 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/201053133047995359.html |date=30 May 2010 |publisher=[[Al Jazeera]] |author=Al Jazeera staff and agencies |access-date=2 June 2010}}</ref><ref name=CNN>{{Cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/31/gaza.protest/index.html?hpt=T1 |title=Israeli assault on Gaza-bound flotilla leaves at least 9 dead |work=CNN |date=30 May 2010 |access-date=2 June 2010}}</ref><ref name= AJEshooting>{{Cite news|title=Flotilla activists 'shot 30 times' |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/20106535425983666.html|date=5 June 2010 |publisher=[[Al Jazeera]] |author=Al Jazeera staff and agencies |access-date=6 June 2010}}</ref>

In January 2010, the [[Free Gaza Movement]] and İHH announced a joint venture to send ten vessels to the Gaza strip in the spring of 2010, a flotilla to be further joined by organizations from Greece, Ireland and Sweden.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Our Last Port Is Freedom: Sending a Flotilla in the Spring to Break the Siege of Gaza |url=http://www.freegaza.org/en/our-last-port-is-freedom |publisher=[[Free Gaza Movement]] |date=28 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705004459/http://www.freegaza.org/en/our-last-port-is-freedom |archive-date=5 July 2010 }}</ref>

On 31 May 2010, after the IHH refused that the [[Israel Defense Forces]] will check the ship's cargo in [[Ashdod]] port, Israeli forces intercepted the fleet in the international waters. On the MV ''Mavi Marmara'', one of the ships owned and operated by the İHH, boarding Israeli forces came under coordinated armed attack. In the clashes, nine activists were killed (Eight [[Turkey|Turkish]] nationals and a [[Turkish-Americans|Turkish-American]]), and dozens of activists and seven Israeli commandos were wounded. On three other ships, activists showed [[passive resistance]], which was suppressed by Israeli forces without deaths or injuries, and two others were taken without incident. The activists were subsequently arrested and detained in Israel before being deported. Widespread [[Reactions to the Gaza flotilla raid|international condemnation]] of the raid followed, [[Israel-Turkey relations]] were strained, Israel subsequently eased its blockade of the Gaza strip, and [[Egypt]] lifted its blockade, opening its [[Rafah Border Crossing]] with the Gaza Strip.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6502H820100601 |title=Egypt opens Gaza border after Israel ship clash |last1=Macdonald |first1=Alastair |date= 1 June 2010|work=[[Reuters]] |publisher=[[Thomson Reuters]] }}</ref>

Some of the allegations included that IHH has been banned in Germany, that IHH has raised funds for jihadi fighters in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Afghanistan, that French intelligence has documented calls between the group and an Al Qaeda boarding house in Milan, Italy, as well as Algerian militants in Europe, and that IHH reportedly played an "important role" in the [[2000 millennium attack plots#LAX bombing plot|Millennium bomb plot]] against LAX airport, Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0601/Targeted-by-Israeli-raid-Who-is-the-IHH|title=Targeted by Israeli raid: Who is the IHH?|author=Iason Athanasiadis|date=1 June 2010}}</ref>

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