The Turkish Trade Ministry on Thursday firmly rejected allegations of ongoing commerce with Israel, dismissing them as baseless and intentionally deceptive.
In an official assertion, the ministry mentioned the claims have been propagated by a person wished on terrorism costs who has fled overseas and is allegedly appearing as a international intelligence asset with a hostile agenda towards Türkiye. The ministry accused the person of spreading disinformation and distortion through social media in an try to fabricate the notion that commerce with Israel continues.
“These falsehoods are aimed at manipulating public opinion and undermining Türkiye’s principled stance,” the assertion learn.
For greater than 1.5 years, Türkiye, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been the main nation on the earth to wage essentially the most valiant battle within the fields of diplomacy, commerce, regulation, well being and humanitarian support towards Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and aggression within the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria, it mentioned, including: “This fact is appreciated by the Palestinians, the Palestinian government, the entire Islamic world, and other countries and peoples with a conscience.”
It mentioned Türkiye has been combating towards such lies and slanders on this challenge for 1.5 years, and it’ll proceed to take action much more vigorously. The nation has offered the details with figures, information and data lots of of instances, it famous.
The ministry recalled that Türkiye has decreased its commerce with Israel by round 30% within the seven-month interval from Oct. 7, 2023 to May 2, 2024, on the first section whereas efforts to ascertain a ceasefire within the area and enhance the scenario continued.
With the choice of the federal government, Türkiye halted exports to Israel on April 9, 2024, in 1,019 merchandise beneath 54 classes; three weeks in a while May 2, 2024, exports, imports and transit commerce from Türkiye to Israel have been fully ceased in all product teams, it reminded.
“Trade transactions with Israel cannot be carried out at customs and in our free zones. Trade with Israel has been zero since May 2, 2024,” the ministry acknowledged.
The export determine from Türkiye to Israel in 2024 of $2.8 billion given within the news story can also be fully mistaken, it famous.
“Before our decision to stop trade on May 2, 2024, exports in the first four months of 2024 were $1.52 billion, and this includes exports to Palestine,” it added.
The ministry additionally mentioned in response to the West Bank-Ramallah-based Palestinian authorities’s need to commerce with Türkiye for Palestine’s pressing wants, a novel managed commerce mechanism was developed in accordance with the “Türkiye-Palestine State Protocol” signed on June 7, 2024.
Exports from Türkiye to Palestine, that are made solely in accordance with the restricted allow software the place the importer is Palestinian, the vacation spot is Palestinian, and every software is tightly managed by the Turkish Ministry of Trade, are $797 million in complete in 2024, the assertion learn.
On the opposite hand, this small quantity of commerce with the Palestinian territories can solely be executed by two Israeli ports since Palestine doesn’t have a port or customs, it reminded.
It added: “As can be seen, the distorted news is entirely a slander aimed at creating the perception that ‘Türkiye is still exporting to Israel.'”
It is obvious that it goals to “discredit our government’s policies and measures against Israel’s genocides and to serve Israel’s interests outright.”
According to 2022 information, Türkiye has renounced its $9.5 billion international commerce with Israel, $7 billion of which is export, to assist the Palestinian trigger and harmless Palestinians, it famous.
Source: www.dailysabah.com