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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
Its so refreshing to see actual data instead of people just constantly making shit up
Found it - 76% of Israel import from Turkey
Although it was a misreading, I do appreciate you making the effort to come back with a source.
Thank you for sticking to facts and data instead of accusation and personal assumptions
That says Turkish exports constituted 76% of the total bilateral trade amount between the two countries. They both have many larger trading partners separate from their bilateral trade relationship
Still verify when you can. AI will get better at spitting out graphics like this.
There is a very good reason I refused to argue with UNCOMTRADE - wherever I read that it was 79% has considerable less authority than even a 5 second search on COMTRADE.
Israel is 2.8% of Turkeys exports.
Quality post +1
Found the link- looks like 76% of Israel imports are Turkey exports. Excuse the .ml link
Interesting, other than it being linked to .ml, and the article being paywalled:
Trade between the countries was worth $6.8 billion in 2023, of which 76% was Turkish exports, according to the Turkish statistical institute.
Total trade between the two countries is worth $6.8, 76% of that $6.8 billion is made up Turkist exports. That doesn’t mean that Israel buys 76% of Turkeys exported products.
Thank you - post updated
Are you some kind of CEO? You’re implying that you should abandon your morals if it hurts your bottom line.
You wanted to insult the Turkish government but you just wound up making them sound awesome
When you as a government are talking about the welfare of your people, yes, I expect them to look after their own.
Another person clarified eairler - looks like my number was ~20× inflated. Will need to check my source as that changed the effects considerably.
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.
Turkey is invading Rojava/Kurdistan right now. What a fucking double standard.
Source?
Ah, the ongoing war against the Kurda in Syria. Not that that makes it any better :( I thought you meant inside Turkey.
You mean Syria?
Kurds deserve their own state as much as plaestinians do. But colonial nations back in the past fucked up.
No.
Finally, it took him long enough.
