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.
Gd, when even fucking Erdogan thinks you’re going too far. I know they’re a usually antagonistic force to the West, but they are a real player in the region, so this is still good pressure on Israel. Even if it happens to be opportunistic.
Turkey/Erdogan aligns with the West most of the time. He’s antagonistic sometimes, and that’s what makes headlines so is the image most people have developed of him. He’s been staunchly pro-Palestine since he took office in 2003, and has had pretty poor relations with Israel for almost the entire last 20 years, so this is not surprising
Damn, rare W from Erdogan here
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.
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.
Overwhelmingly Muslim country with a head of government who has reinforced their Muslim identity to safeguard his own power. This doesn’t have as much to do with leftism or humanitarism as it has to do with being somewhat coherent with their declared in-group, lest their own base turns against them. I think the move is good though, even if I don’t trust their reasons.
While they do make it sound good, I wouldn’t be sure this is coming from a leftist ideal. More than likely this is about power, because it’s always about power (not just for Turkey, but for every nation). There’s something Turkey gains by doing this. I don’t really know what, but I can promise you it’s there.
Yeah I’m also having trouble finding his angle. Maybe Turkey is finally wisening up to Russian Aggression after all this time and wants the US focus to shift off of the Israeli conflict and onto the Ukraine front?
Maybe they want to get back to a point where they can purchase new Jets again, lol. They got banned from the program because they were also buying Russian fighters at the time.
“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)
Let’s make no mistake, this dude isn’t doing this out of some semblance of morals. Dudes an authoritarian dictator
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.
