Turkey is taking drastic steps
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan has announced that Turkey is ending "all trade and military relations" with Israel. Erdogan has also announced that he might visit the Gaza Sector, but that he will make an announcement about that more specifically after meetings with the local authorities of Egypt during his visit to that country in late September.
A day before the Turkish Prime Minister's announcement, the Turkish authorities had ordered all high-ranking Egyptian diplomats to leave Turkey by Wednesday.
Let us remind that Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Friday made a statement that the Turkish government would be reducing its presence in Israel and making it reach the level of the ambassador's second secretary. The Turkish government's decision comes after the New York Times released the long-anticipated UN report on the newspaper's website, which it obtained via the "outflow" of information.
According to the report released by the New York Times, the group of UN experts has come to the conclusion that Israel's sea blockade of the Gaza Sector is legitimate, but the Israeli government applied "incommensurate and nonsensical" force during the prevention of an attempt to break through the blockade of the Turkish government, reported by "Voice of America".
