The Turkish Foreign Ministry has asked the Israeli consul general in Istanbul to leave the country "for some time" in a diplomatic spat which follows the killings of at least 61 Palestinians by Israeli forces.
Ankara has expelled Israel's ambassador temporarily and recalled its ambassadors from Tel Aviv and Washington. Ambassador Eitan Na'eh was seen in Istanbul's main international airport en route to Tel Aviv.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also called Israel a terrorist state, and its actions toward the Palestinians as an act of genocide.
However, on Tuesday, Erdoğan's AKP party struck down a call in parliament to cancel all economic, military, and political agreements with Israel.
