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Your opinion of the ethics of the blockade mean nothing to the situation. Under international law, the blockade is legal regardless of the ethics (war is unethical...but it happens anyway). if Turkey decides to help some ships run the blockade and fire on Israeli naval vessels, it is an act of war. It is that simple.
It might not lead to war, but that is the standard, cold nature of international law from even before there was a United Nations to say if something was legal or not. It was law of the seas type thing about blockades and running them. Since the entire point of a blockade is to keep things from entering a country, they are generally unethical by default. Think World War One. The British and Germans blockaded each other in whatever ways they could. The British blockaded using their vast surface fleet, the Germans used u-boats to starve out the United Kingdom. It was fairly effective, but not abolute (since the British Isles are rather large and u-boats can't be everywhere at once). The Israeli blockade has much less area to cover so they can be more efficeint. They let some thing though, but other things are not allowed to enter. They aren't randomly sinking every single ship that comes into that area for instance.
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