HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WAT A JOKE ERDOGAN HAS EVIDENCE THT ISRAEL WAS BEHIND THE COUP IF HE HATES ISRAEL SO MUCH THEN HIS GOVERNMENT ND HIS COUNTRY SHOULD CANCEL ALL THE TIES WITH ISRAEL CLOSE ISRAELI EMBASSY IN ANKARA ND RECALL TURKEYS AMBASSADOR FROM ISRAEL ND CANCEL ALL THE MILITARY TIES ND TRANSACTIONS AS WELL WHICH TURKEY ND ISRAEL HAS THIS ERDOGAN IS A IMPOSTER BIG TIME AMERICA HAS GIVEN HIM ERDOGAN TURKEY ND IRAN THE ASSIGNMENT 2 PLOTT ND DESTABLISE ISLAMIC COUNTRIES ESPECIALLY ARAB COUNTRIES JUST LIKE IRAN ND TURKEY ND ERDOGAN RECENTLY DID IN LIBYA ND NOW IN SYRIA BOTH TURKEY ND IRAN R DESTABLISING SYRIA THTS Y U HAVENT HVE LISTENED UPTILL NOW ANYTHING AGAINST IRAN THIS ERDOGAN HAS 2 SAY ND ONTOP OF THT WE ALL KNOW WHO CREATED PESHMERGA ND PKK ND WHO IS DESTABLISING TURKEY BUT U WILL NEVER EVERY HEAR ERDOGAN SAY A WORD AGAINST IRAN OR AUTHORISE TURKEYS ARMED FORCES 2 NEUTRALIZE PKK ND PESHMERGAS TERROR ND TRAINING CAMPS INSIDE IRAN BUT THIS ERDOGAN IS FINGERING SYRIA ND NOW EGYPT ND FINGERED LYBIA WITH IRAN THIS SHOWS IRAN ND TURKEY R TOGETHER PLOTTING ND PLANNING AGAINST ISLAMIC COUNTRIES ESPECIALLY ARAB COUNTRIES.
On 11 October 2009, a military aerial exercise was to consist of Turkey, Israel, the United States, and Italy. However, Turkey barred Israel from the Anatolian Eagle military exercise.
In October 2009, following Turkey's banning Israel's participation in the Anatolian Eagle military exercise, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu objected to Turkey as a mediator, stating "Turkey can't be [an] honest broker", between Syria and Israel.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticizes Israeli policy and leaves the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
Erdoğan harshly criticized Israel's conduct in Gaza at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland in early 2009. After the assembled audience applauded Peres, Erdoğan said: "I find it very sad that people applaud what you said. You killed people. And I think that it is very wrong." The moderator, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius asked Erdoğan to finish, saying that people needed to go to dinner. Erdoğan complained about the fact, that he was given 12 minutes to talk, whereas Peres talked for a duration of 25 minutes. Erdoğan then proceeded to leave the stage.
In October 2009, Ayrılık, a prime-time serial on Turkish state television channel TRT 1 featured fictionalized scenes of Israeli soldiers shooting Palestinian children and mistreating elderly Arabs. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized the program, and rebuked the Turkish Ambassador in front of assembled media. Lieberman subsequently apologized after Turkey threatened to withdraw its ambassador.
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In September 2011, military agreements between Turkey and Israel were suspended. Turkey has frozen 16 defense contracts worth billions of dollars since March 2010. Turkey suspended a 5 billion dollar deal for 1,000 Merkava Mk 3 tanks. Turkey also dropped Israel Aerospace Industries Arrow-2 anti-ballistic missile system worth $2 billion from bidding. Now only U.S, European, and Chinese companies can bid.
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In October 2010 Israel's Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov encouraged Israelis to boycott Turkey as a vacation spot in response to Turkey's stance on Gaza. The number of Israeli tourists in Turkey dropped to 300,000 in 2009 and to 110,000 in 2010; it declined further to about 62,000 between January and August 2011. According to Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Israelis' share of Turkey's total tourism declined from 3% to 0.05%. The number of Arab tourists in Turkey, by contrast, increased to about 1.4 million visitors in the first part of 2011, a jump from about 912,000 in the whole of 2009. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated in June 2012: "We do not need Israeli tourists. We have successfully filled their places".
Still, tourism to Antalya rose by more than 20% from September 2010 to September 2011, and the number of Israeli visitors to Istanbul rose 13%, still well below previous peaks.
Turkish Airlines dropped the number of weekly flights to Israel by about half in 2010.
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