This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/ScoMoTrudeauApricot on 2023-10-29 06:56:14.
Israel recalls diplomats from Turkey in Gaza row
Submitted 2 years ago by bot@lemmit.online [bot] to worldnews@lemmit.online
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-67252049
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Israel has recalled diplomats from Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused it of behaving like a “war criminal”.
(tldr: 4 sentences skipped)
Since then, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 7,500 Palestinians have been killed as Israel carries out retaliatory strikes.
Addressing a crowd of several hundred thousand Palestinian supporters on Saturday, the Turkish president said “the main culprit behind the massacre unfolding in Gaza is the West”.
(tldr: 5 sentences skipped)
It follows posts from the Turkish leader earlier on Saturday on X, formerly known as Twitter, in which he said the latest escalation had targeted “innocent civilians” and worsened Gaza’s humanitarian crisis, adding: “Israel must immediately stop this madness and end its attacks”.
Moments after President Erdogan finished his remarks at the rally, Israel’s Foreign Minister Mr Cohen said on X: “Given the grave statements coming from Turkey, I have ordered the return of diplomatic representatives there in order to conduct a re-evaluation of the relations between Israel and Turkey.”
(tldr: 6 sentences skipped)
Relations were restored in 2016, but they expelled each other’s top diplomats in 2018 in a dispute over Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid protests on the Gaza-Israel border.
(tldr: 2 sentences skipped)
The original article contains 473 words, the summary contains 202 words. Saved 57%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!