Comment on Turkey’s sudden ban on trade with Israel is already affecting Jews in both countries

Turkey’s sudden ban on trade with Israel is already affecting Jews in both countries

(JTA) Despite months of deteriorating relations and increasingly hostile rhetoric, the complete shutdown of trade between Turkey and Israel earlier this month came as a shock to many. The shutdown, which Turkey’s Islamist-leaning president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced May 3, is putting pressure on prices in Israel, cutting off a major trade route for kosher food and affecting people on both corners of the eastern Mediterranean. “For the last two weeks, everything stopped.

 

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