Erdogan Cuts off Turkey's Trade With Israel – 'This Is How Dictators Behave', Tel Aviv Responds

Turkey is suspending all commercial transactions with Israel from today, Thursday, as the “Bloomberg” website reported, citing two Turkish officials “with knowledge of the matter”, without naming them. On April 9, Turkey had announced the imposition of an export embargo against Israel on 54 categories of products, as a reaction to the operations of the Israeli army in the Gaza war. The catalog at the time included various types of products, mainly construction materials such as aluminum and steel, paints, electrical cables, building materials, fuels and other raw materials. The volume of trade between the two countries was recorded at 6.8 billion dollars in 2023. So far, there is no official position on the matter from the Turkish side. The news, however, was confirmed by a post on the “X” platform by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Israel Katz, accusing the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of “violating the agreements by blocking the ports for Israeli imports and exports” and supporting that “this is how a dictator behaves, ignoring the interests of the Turkish people […]
Source: News Beast

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