Turkey increased the export of biological product to Israel
Turkey recorded a 1,361 percent increase in the export of human and animal blood, vaccines and serums to Israel in 2014 over the preceding three years, according to government data.
Turkish exports of these products amounted to only $349,000 in 2012, while the volume grew to $3.4 million in 2014 and $5.1 million in 2014, according to figures from the Ministry of Economy. Data for 2015 have yet to be published.
Turkey and Israel have been at odds since then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stormed out of a panel discussion after criticizing Israeli President Shimon Peres in 2009 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Tension between the two further escalated in 2010 when the Mavi Marmara, part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, was boarded by Israeli marines who wound up killing eight Turkish civilians and one Turkish-American.
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