September 05, 2025
Could Israel Face Global Isolation as Turkey Turns Away? Hay Eytan for allisraelnews
Last year, despite a $9 billion trade volume in imports and exports, Turkey unilaterally decided to suspend trade. Yet, as Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak of Tel Aviv’s Moshe Dayan Center told ALL ISRAEL NEWS, Turkish ships continued sailing to Israel.
“The goods carried in these shipments were sent to be delivered to the Palestinian Authority. In many of these cases, Palestinians receiving the goods would later hand them over to their Israeli counterparts in exchange for small commissions,” Yanarocak explained. “Now, with the newly adopted sanctions, no Turkish-flagged ship is sailing to Israel anymore. This constitutes a significant blow to bilateral trade, which was supposedly considered completely terminated.”
Read the full article on allisraelnews.