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Israeli tourism to Turkey doubles since last year
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsraeli tourism to Turkey has more than doubled since last year, according to figures by Turkey’s tourism ministry. August’s numbers — more than 38,000 Israeli visitors that month — were 101 percent higher than in August 2014, the ministry says.
August’s figures were also some 30% higher than in the same month in 2013, the Ynet news site reports.
Last summer, the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza drew angry denunciations from the Turkish government, which has been increasingly at odds with Israel, and increasingly supportive of Hamas and other Islamist forces in the region, under Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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