Turkey does not need United States' mediation to solve a long-lasting crisis with Israel over the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla attack, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday.

“We do not need mediation ... for Israel in any way,” Davutoglu said during a televised press conference in the central province of Konya when asked to comment on the possibility of the U.S. helping to resolve their differences, AFP reported.

“There is no such situation in which mediation is needed. The demands of Turkey are clear” if its former ally Israel wants to improve relations, Davutoglu said.

“No one should test our resolve on this matter,” he said, adding that Israeli-Turkish relations might be on the agenda among other issues of a meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Barack Obama next week on the sidelines of the UN general assembly.

“The Americans are probably the people who best understand Turkey's position on this issue,” Davutoglu added.

Davutoglu's comments echoed a statement made earlier in the week by Erdogan, who rejected reconciliation with Tel Aviv without a formal apology over the 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and compensation for the families of the victims. 

“Relations with Israel cannot normalize if Israel does not apologize over the Flotilla attack, compensate the martyrs' families and lift the blockade of Gaza,” Erdogan said. 

On May 31, 2010, Israeli navy commandos attacked the Gaza Freedom Flotilla while it was sailing in international waters on a mission to break Tel Aviv's siege of the Gaza Strip. 

The attack left nine Turkish citizens, including a Turkish-American teenager, dead and dozens of others wounded. 

However, Tel Aviv has refused to apologize for the attack, prompting Ankara to expel the Israeli ambassador, cut all bilateral military ties, and downgrade relations with Israel. 

Turkey has also vowed to take action at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to challenge Tel Aviv's four-year siege of Gaza. The blockade has been preventing the flow of food, medicine, and other basic supplies into the impoverished coastal territory.