ISRAEL COMPANIES BOYCOTT TURKISH COFFEE AND TURKISH SUN
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Oct 19 2009
Armenia
A large Israeli coffee chain has decided to stop selling Turkish
coffee and plans are afoot to boycott Turkish resorts in the wake
of increased tensions between the two allies, officials said Sunday,
reports Turkish news source Hurriyet Daily News.
"We have decided for the time being to stop selling ‘Istanbul coffee,’
our Turkish coffee blend, and we shall keep doing it until matters
improve," Michael Steg, director of marketing for the Ilan chain of
cafes, told the Ynet news website.
"We believe anyone can be active in his own way and this is our small
and symbolic way of doing that," he said.
Meanwhile, Yossi Levy, a senior official with Israel’s national carrier
ElAl, told Army Radio his employee association and those of several
other major Israeli businesses plan to stop subsidizing vacations
for their workers to Turkey during the Passover holiday next April,
the next major holiday season in the Jewish state during which up to
80,000 Israelis are expected to visit Turkish resorts.
As reported by Hurriyet, the boycott moves come as a response to
a Turkish state television series that began airing last week that
depicts Israeli soldiers deliberately killing Palestinian children.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
