ISRAEL boycotts Turkish coffee and resorts
Turkey's firm stance against Israel over its war crimes in the Gaza Strip has prompted Israeli officials to boycott Turkish coffee and vacations.
Yossi Levy, a senior official with Israel's national carrier ElAl, has told Army Radio that his employee association and those of several other major Israeli businesses plan to stop subsidizing vacations for their workers to Turkey during the Passover holiday, AFP reported.
Normally, during the holiday next April, some 80,000 Israelis should visit Turkish resorts.
A large Israeli cafe chain has also decided to stop selling Turkish coffee.
"We have decided for the time being to stop selling 'Istanbul coffee' -- our Turkish coffee blend, and we shall keep doing it until matters improve," Michael Steg, director of marketing for the Ilan coffee shop chain, told the Ynet news website.
The boycott moves come as a response to a Turkish state television series that began airing last week that depicts Israeli soldiers deliberately killing Palestinian children, the latest incident to sour relations between Israel and Turkey.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday slammed Israel as a "persecutor" that has attacked civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Turkey's population is over ten times higher than that of Israel which has a population of about seven million and in the case that "boycott war" breaks out between the two, Israel's defeat seems guaranteed.
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