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.

  • @distantsounds
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    148 months ago

    It’s terrible. If it wasn’t for one of my best friends being Armenian, I most likely wouldn’t know. They didn’t teach that in any school I attended (thru college)

    • Kalkaline
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      158 months ago

      My great grandfather survived, my grandpa went on to have 7 kids and 5 of them went on to have kids (that we know of). We made the best of it. I’m going to teach my daughter about it when she’s old enough to understand. Just do good in the world and tell not only our story, but all the other ones too.

    • @[email protected]
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      128 months ago

      the genocide of the Armenians is not taught about in German schools because it regularly resulted in attacks on teachers from turkish parents if teachers so much as spoke about it to their students.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          15 months ago

          Probably politicians pandering to the significant Turkish-German demographic

    • @JustAnotherRando
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      68 months ago

      I learned about the Armenian genocide as well as the ongoing struggles of the Armenian people because of System of a Down. Pretty sure if it wasn’t for that band, I would have never heard about it.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        15 months ago

        At least you didn’t learn about it from the Kardashians like millions of people did 😬