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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