{"id":35080,"date":"2024-05-03T12:18:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=35080"},"modified":"2024-05-03T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:41:43","slug":"turkey-halts-all-trade-with-israel-over-worsening-gaza-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/turkey-halts-all-trade-with-israel-over-worsening-gaza-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey halts all trade with Israel over worsening Gaza situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ANKARA: Turkey announced halting all trade with Israel citing the country\u2019s ongoing military action in Gaza and vowed to continue to impose the measures until the Israeli government allows the flow of humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A Turkish Trade Ministry statement said, \u201cExports and imports to and from Israel have been suspended, covering all products.\u201d Turkish officials would coordinate with Palestinian authorities to ensure that Palestinians are not affected by the suspension of imports and exports, the ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turkey will strictly and decisively implement these new measures until the Israeli Government allows an uninterrupted and sufficient flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza,&#8221; Turkey&#8217;s trade ministry said in a statement. The two countries had a trade volume of $6.8 billion in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The ministry described the step as the \u201csecond phase\u201d of measures against Israel, adding that the steps would remain in force until Israel \u201callows an uninterrupted and sufficient flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/iran-on-high-alert-after-alleged-israels-drone-attack-thwart-in-isfahan\/\">Iran on high alert after alleged Israe&#8217;s drone attack thwart in Isfahan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last month, Turkey \u2014 a staunch critic of Israel\u2019s military actions \u2014 announced that it was restricting exports of 54 types of products to Israel, including aluminum, steel, construction products,\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0chemical fertilizers. Israel responded by also announcing trade barriers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Earlier on Thursday, Israel\u2019s Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Turkey of blocking Israeli imports and exports from Turkish ports. Katz said he instructed the foreign ministry to work to create alternatives for trade with Turkey, focusing on local production and imports from other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">&#8220;This is how a dictator behaves, disregarding the interests of the Turkish people and businessmen, and ignoring international trade agreements,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s Foreign Minister posted on social media platform X.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA: Turkey announced halting all trade with Israel citing the country\u2019s ongoing military action in Gaza and vowed to continue to impose the measures until the Israeli government allows the flow of humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza. A Turkish Trade Ministry statement said, \u201cExports and imports to and from Israel have been suspended, covering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12603,16209,16207,16208],"class_list":["post-35080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-gaza-war","tag-turkey-ends-all-trade-with-israel","tag-turkey-israel","tag-turkey-israel-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}