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submitted 3 months ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Turkey is strongly anti-genocide as long as it doesn't involve Kurds or Armenians, then they are completely pro-genocide.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

*the Turkish nationalists.

There's millions of lovely and non-genocidal people in Turkey. Source: learning Turkish since 2015 and travel there a lot

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

Fun fact. Azerbaijan and Israel are allies. Israel receives most of its Oil and Gas from Azerbaijan, Israeli drones helped murder Armenians in the last war and Israel has a deal going on with the azerbaijani oil and gas company to developed the Gas fields they want to steal from the Palestinians at the coast of Gaza.

So if you want to be against genocide against Armenians it is a good way to go about being against supporting Israel.

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