JERUSALEM (JTA) — Turkey’s parliament approved the reconciliation agreement with Israel restoring diplomatic ties after a six-year freeze.

The deal which normalizes relations between the two countries was approved in Turkey early on Saturday morning before it left for a summer recess.  Israel’s Knesset approved the deal in late June.

The Prime Minister’s Office on Saturday night issued a statement welcoming the approval and said that Israel “looks forward to the next steps of its implementation, including the return of our respective ambassadors.”

Relations between Israel and Turkey broke down in the aftermath of the Mavi Marmara incident in May 2010, when Israeli commandos boarded and killed nine Turkish citizens in clashes on a boat attempting to break Israel’s Gaza blockade.

Under the agreement approved on Saturday, Turkey will drop legal claims against the Israeli military and individual officers and soldiers who were part of the Mavi Marmara raid.

Also as part of the deal, Israel pay $20 million to a humanitarian fund as compensation to the families of the Mavi Marmara victims.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apologized for the deaths, another Turkish condition for the resumption of diplomatic ties.

Hours after the Turkish approval of the deal, a bomb attack on a wedding in the southeastern city of Gaziantep, located close to the Syrian border and a center for Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war, left at least 50 dead. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said the Islamic State was the “likely perpetrator” of the attack.