The new measures come a day after Turkey said Israel had blocked its attempt to airdrop aid to Gaza.
“This decision will remain in place until Israel declares a ceasefire immediately and allows adequate and uninterrupted flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza,” the trade ministry announced on social media.
It attached a list of 54 products subject to export restrictions.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday vowed reprisals against Israel for blocking Turkey’s air force from airdropping aid to Gaza, saying they would be implemented “step by step” and “without delay”.
The export measures were approved by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he added.
“We will continue our support until the bloodshed in Gaza stops and our Palestinian brothers reach a free Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital,” Erdogan said in a message on Tuesday for Eid al-Fitr — the Muslim feast that marks the end of Ramadan.
Israel’s foreign ministry accused Turkey of “unilaterally violating the trade agreements with Israel”, adding in a statement that it would “adopt the necessary steps against it”.
Turkey has become one of the harshest critics of Israel’s war on Gaza, with Erdogan branding Israel a “terrorist state”.
His salvoes against Israel include allegations it is committing “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza in its response to Hamas militants’ unprecedented October 7 attack.
The assault killed 1,170 people, most of them civilians, according to Israeli figures, while Israel’s military campaign has killed at least 33,207 people in Gaza according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
Erdogan has defended Hamas — considered a terrorist organisation by Israel, the United States and the European Union — as “a liberation group”.–AFP
