Turkey stops all trade with Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy’ in Gaza
Turkey stops all trade with Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy’ in Gaza
Israeli foreign minister strongly criticises decision by President Erdoğan, accusing him of acting like a ‘dictator’
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
It's coincidental.
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.
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.
well the thing about having a dictator is they tend not to have to explain their reasoning, likely its something stupid and personal
This is saying a lot, knowing Turkey.
"Humanitarian tragedy"
Just say "genocide", cowards.
If you trick him into saying that word he gets banished to his dimension
superfriends reference right here. +1
Let’s make no mistake, this dude isn’t doing this out of some semblance of morals. Dudes an authoritarian dictator
He was forced into doing this by the opposition. The opposition won a major election against Erdo in March, and Israel was a major point he got hit on.
Why is he doing it then?
A right-wing dictator fighting another right-wing dictator. Kinda funny
TFW someone stands up to Israel but its fucking Erdogan
Eh, that's the thing with nationalism. You can have allies of convenience but conflict is inevitable.
That's why Nationalism is dumb as hell
Willing to bet real money that the US has a stronger reaction to Turkey doing this than to Israel actually doing genocide.
A good move by Turkey.
At the surface level - itd call it moralistic at best.
Whether it was a good move - Israel is something like 76% of Turkey exports. You think that will bode well for jobs and general quality of life?Sorry, looks like it's much less. Going to have to go back and check where I found that.
Edit: great, now confused. I think it's 76% of Israel imports was turkey exports. Source is Bloomberg, but posted on .ml
Thanks to the complexities or modern geopolitics and culture, as well as pressure from Turkish public opinion, just this time Erdoğan is on the right side of History.
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
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.
Finally, it took him long enough.
Turkey is invading Rojava/Kurdistan right now. What a fucking double standard.
You mean Syria?
Kurds deserve their own state as much as plaestinians do. But colonial nations back in the past fucked up.
No.
