Thursday 29 November 2018

Israel downgrades diplomatic representation in Turkey

Israel downgrades diplomatic representation in Turkey
Israel has decided to lower the level of its diplomatic representation in Turkey, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported Wednesday.

According to the report, after the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in Ankara last May, the foreign ministry decided that his successor would be a junior diplomat.

The Channel quoted Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nakhshon as saying that Tel Aviv also decided not to appoint a new consul to Israel in Istanbul.

He pointed out that Israel downgraded its diplomatic representation in Turkey in accordance with the principle of “reciprocity.”

A few months ago, the Turkish leadership ordered the deportation of the Israeli ambassador in the country, and recalled its ambassador in Tel Aviv in protest of the cold-blooded killing of 60 Palestinian protesters in Gaza, who were demonstrating against the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in mid-May one day before they commemorated the Nakba which saw about a million Palestinians forced out of their homes to make way for the creation of the state of Israel.




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