Turkey has halted all trade with Israel, citing the “worsening humanitarian tragedy” in the Palestinian territories, which prompted strong criticism from the Israeli foreign minister.
“Export and import transactions related to Israel have been stopped, covering all products,” Turkey’s trade ministry said late on Thursday.
“Turkey will strictly and decisively implement these new measures until the Israeli government allows an uninterrupted and sufficient flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, accused Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of acting like a “dictator” after the restrictions were first reported.
This is saying a lot, knowing Turkey.
A good move by Turkey.
At the surface level - itd call it moralistic at best.
Whether it was a good move - Israel is something like 76% of Turkey exports. You think that will bode well for jobs and general quality of life?
Sorry, looks like it’s much less. Going to have to go back and check where I found that.
Edit: great, now confused. I think it’s 76% of Israel imports was turkey exports. Source is Bloomberg, but posted on .ml
Its so refreshing to see actual data instead of people just constantly making shit up
Are you some kind of CEO? You’re implying that you should abandon your morals if it hurts your bottom line.
You wanted to insult the Turkish government but you just wound up making them sound awesome
he would never do that, if the second biggest islamic party, known as yeniden refah partisi, didn’t say so. some ak parti voters, voted to yeniden refah partisi, just because they didn’t want this to continue. fatih erbakan, who is in charge of that party, probably will cause more problems in the future for erdogan
Erdogan stopped wagging his ZIonist tail real quick after his massive losses in the recent election
Damn, rare W from Erdogan here
“Humanitarian tragedy”
Just say “genocide”, cowards.
Ooh pick me, pick me, I’m American, but my great grandfather was Armenian. Want to know why he came to America suddenly?
It’s terrible. If it wasn’t for one of my best friends being Armenian, I most likely wouldn’t know. They didn’t teach that in any school I attended (thru college)