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.

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    8 months ago

    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

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      8 months ago

      Erdogan stopped wagging his ZIonist tail real quick after his massive losses in the recent election

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        8 months ago

        what’s fucking funny is that, turkish journalists had already reported his transactions to israel way before the election, it didn’t made it to news, even opposition parties didn’t talked about it.