{"id":55422,"date":"2025-08-30T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/turkiye-closes-airspace-to-israel-severs-trade-ties-over-gaza-war\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:45:46","slug":"turkiye-closes-airspace-to-israel-severs-trade-ties-over-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/turkiye-closes-airspace-to-israel-severs-trade-ties-over-gaza-war\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye closes airspace to Israel, severs trade ties over Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement on August 29, 2025, was delivered with uncompromising language in Ankara\u2019s parliament, where Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan underscored the depth of T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s break with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have completely cut off our trade with Israel. We do not allow Turkish ships to go to Israeli ports. We do not allow their planes to enter our airspace,\u201d Fidan declared in his address to the Grand National Assembly. <\/p>\n<p>He accused Israel of \u201ccommitting genocide in Gaza for the past two years, ignoring basic humanitarian values right before the world\u2019s eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The measures extend a decision taken in May 2024, when T\u00fcrkiye suspended direct trade with Israel, halting a commercial partnership worth nearly $7 billion the year before. <\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s announcement closes off every remaining avenue of cooperation, from trade to transportation, and enforces strict new maritime rules requiring ships to prove they are not connected to Israel or carrying military cargo.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, T\u00fcrkiye has positioned itself as a potential humanitarian actor. The presidency confirmed that air drops of aid to Gaza are prepared and awaiting coordination with Jordan. <\/p>\n<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has matched his government\u2019s policies with fierce criticism of Israel\u2019s leadership. <\/p>\n<p>The fallout is expected to affect regional transport and trade flows, forcing airlines and shipping companies to reroute at greater cost. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-93410\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/day-tr.jpg\" alt=\"T\u00fcrkiye has escalated its response to Israel\u2019s war in Gaza by closing its airspace, banning Israeli ships, and severing all remaining trade links, marking a complete rupture in bilateral relations.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fcrkiye has escalated its response to Israel\u2019s war in Gaza by closing its airspace, banning Israeli ships, and severing all remaining trade links, marking a complete rupture in bilateral relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000093409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[201],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-rania-umutoni"],"bylines":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":139}],"contributors":[{"id":201,"name":"Rania Umutoni","slug":"rania-umutoni","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":139}],"featured_image":{"id":2000093409,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/day-tr.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/day-tr.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/day-tr.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/day-tr.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/day-tr.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/day-tr.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55422"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55422"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}