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.
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
I can’t believe joe brandon and snoozin trump are being outflanked on the left by a right wing dictator. Broken clock or something I guess.
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
Let’s make no mistake, this dude isn’t doing this out of some semblance of morals. Dudes an authoritarian dictator
Why is he doing it then?
I actually would like to know the answer. Maybe he’s trying to get an easy win over the West? Maybe he’s trying to more strongly align with the Muslim world?
Analysis: Ruling party errors give Turkey’s opposition hope for future
Finally, another factor has emerged in the past six months as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza – a widespread perception that the government has ignored its core base’s emotional response to the suffering in Gaza and disappointment with its policies on the issue.
This has created a sense of betrayal and alienation among those who have traditionally supported the ruling party because of its ties to Islamic identity and has been one of the fundamental causes of the rise of the conservative New Welfare Party, which advocates cutting trade links and severing diplomatic ties with Israel.
Turns out Genocide on brown people is less popular in the middle east.
Turkey is invading Rojava/Kurdistan right now. What a fucking double standard.
