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.
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
https://lemmy.ml/post/15161455
Source
Its so refreshing to see actual data instead of people just constantly making shit up
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.
Found it - 76% of Israel import from Turkey
https://lemmy.ml/post/15161455
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
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
https://lemmy.ml/post/15161455
Interesting, other than it being linked to .ml, and the article being paywalled:
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.
https://archive.is/B7m4w
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.