Behind Turkey’s Abrupt Halting of Trade With Israel, Some Political Soft-Shoe Seems To Be Afoot

Just what the Middle East needed — a new trade war.

Turkish presidency via AP
President Erdogan after a cabinet meeting at Ankara, January 23, 2023. Turkish presidency via AP

Turkey’s decision to suspend trade relations with Israel shows how conflict in the Middle East is reverberating across the wider region, but it also speaks to slow but seismic shifts in the domestic Turkish political landscape. So Ankara’s balking at Jerusalem, and the decision made this week on trade, could ultimately be more intriguing than commercially consequential. 

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