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.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    463·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • istanbullu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      312·
      6 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.worldEnglish
        313·
        6 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.worldEnglish
          21·
          6 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

        • TryptaminevEnglish
          201·
          6 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.

    • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      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.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      71·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        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.

        • Welt@lazysoci.alEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          I suspect it’s as ideological as Israel’s actions against Palestinians unfortunately.

      • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        well the thing about having a dictator is they tend not to have to explain their reasoning, likely its something stupid and personal