Turkey tells Israel’s Istanbul consul to leave in escalating row
Istanbul, May 16 (DIN NEWS) Turkey has told the Israeli consul general in Istanbul to leave the country temporarily, state media said today, the latest of a series of tit-for-tat expulsions in a growing crisis over Israel’s deadly firing on Palestinians on the Gaza border. The Turkish foreign ministry has told the consul to leave Turkey “for a period of time”, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Turkey had already withdrawn its ambassador in Tel Aviv for consultations and told the Israeli ambassador to Ankara to leave, while Israel ordered the…
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