TURKEY has summoned its ambassador to Israel home for consultations, to protest Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli media said today.
Israeli Foreign Ministry officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Yediot Ahronot Daily said the ambassador and Turkey's consul general in Jerusalem returned to Turkey, less than a week after Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared Israel's actions against Palestinians to the treatment of Jews during the Spanish Inquisition.
Bilateral trade between Israel and Turkey reached US$1.2 billion in 2002, and Turkey has bought US$3 billion worth of Israeli weapons since 1996.
Turkey is also a top foreign holiday destination, visited by some 300,000 Israelis a year.
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