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.
Erdoğan resisted this as long as possible. But the public opinion in Turkey is so strongly anti-genocide right now that he was forced into this by the opposition.
Erdoğan loves to talk tough on Israel, but normally he doesn’t actually follow up.
Turkey is strongly anti-genocide as long as it doesn’t involve Kurds or Armenians, then they are completely pro-genocide.
*the Turkish nationalists.
There’s millions of lovely and non-genocidal people in Turkey. Source: learning Turkish since 2015 and travel there a lot