{"id":302249,"date":"2025-09-01T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=302249"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:55:20","slug":"turkiye-bans-israeli-ships-goods-at-its-ports-halts-cargo-overflights-declares-gaza-a-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/turkiye-bans-israeli-ships-goods-at-its-ports-halts-cargo-overflights-declares-gaza-a-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye Bans Israeli Ships, Goods at Its Ports, Halts Cargo Overflights, Declares Gaza a Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

31 Aug 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced<\/a> Friday [29 Aug] that his country would completely cut economic relations with Israel, blocking Israeli ships from docking at Turkish ports and denying Israeli aircraft that might be carrying weapons overflight rights over T\u00fcrkiye. The latter step imposes extra costs on Israeli cargo flights, which will have to go around Turkey on flights to Moscow, for instance, as well as to Georgia and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

Ships docking at Turkish ports must provide<\/a> legal paperwork certifying that they are not carrying Israeli goods. The ban on Israeli overflights does not extend to passenger jets.<\/p>\n

Turkish Minute<\/a> notes that although President Erdogan announced an economic break with Israel in May, 2024, it has been largely ineffective. It has been bypassed by third parties, and ships carrying Azerbaijani petroleum to Israel have continued this trade, often turning off their transponders once they leave Ceyhoun Port. Orally demanding that ship captains certify that they don\u2019t have Israeli goods aboard is a little unlikely to be effective. The demand is, at least, an attempt to tighten up the boycott of Israel, and comes after repeated activist protests at the country\u2019s ports about the gaps in the application of this sanction.<\/p>\n

The Turkish populace is furious about Israel\u2019s continued genocide in Gaza, and Turkish television \u2014 unlike Israeli or American TV \u2014 reports daily and in detail from Gaza. (See e.g. TRT World, \u201cIsrael blocks the entry of essential hygiene items into Gaza.\u201d <\/a>) The government is therefore under pressure to do more than pay lip service to condemning Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

At the same time, T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s parliament passed a resolution<\/a> Friday declaring that Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza amount to genocide.<\/p>\n

MENA-FN reports<\/a> that the resolution<\/p>\n