Riyadh imposed an unofficial embargo on Turkish products, including textiles and food, last year, and the blockade will become official as of next week.
The Turkish daily Cumhuriyet reports a severe blow to the already shattered Turkish economy. Turkey exports $ 3.3 billion a year to Saudi Arabia. Turkey exported, among other things, fruits, vegetables, food and furniture to the Arab kingdom.
The Saudis are holding hundreds of Turkish trucks on the border with Saudi Arabia and thousands of packages from Turkey at their airports.
Saudi Arabia has also launched a campaign to discourage its citizens from traveling to Turkey because it is an unsafe destination due to the growing crime targeting Saudi citizens.
It is noted that the Erdogan regime has launched attacks on the face of Crown Prince Mohammed and has openly accused him of ordering the assassination of journalist Jamal Kasogi.
Relations between the two countries are strained by Turkey's Gulf policy, military operations in Syria and the assassination of Jamal Kasogi.
Tensions in politics also disrupted economic relations, and in fact a silent embargo was applied for two years, which has now become official.
The issue here is that Turkey’s president has opened disputes all around him and now he faces the consequences. Libya, Greece, Syria, Armenia, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia.
Qatar money injections won’t be able to save his economy for a third time and his biggest ally (Trump) will most likely lose the US elections.
Erdogan probably feels that now is the time to have an “aggressive” foreign policy but this will not benefit his citizens in the long run. Not that he cares too much about them in the first place.
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