\nPhoto by: AP<\/p>\n
\nPhoto by: AP<\/p>\n
By JPOST.COM STAFF<\/span>\u00a0 Move described as first official boycott following flotilla affair; Culture and Tourism Minister says “We want tourism to take place, not politics.”<\/p>\n A Turkish delegation will not be in attendance at this year’s OECD conference, being held in Jerusalem later this month, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n According to the report, Culture and Tourism Minister Ertu\u011frul G\u00fcnay spoke to reporters on Tuesday and confirmed that Turkey would not be sending representatives to Israel for the conference despite prior plans to the contrary.<\/p>\n \u201cRegrettable statements have been made. We want tourism to take place, not politics,\u201d G\u00fcnay was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n Hurriyet described the move as Turkey’s first official boycott of Israel in the wake of the Mavi Marmara raid, in which nine Turkish activists were killed<\/p>\n The UK has also said it won’t be attending the conference, but told The Jerusalem Post that the reasons for this were non-political. A Foreign Office spokesman said:<\/p>\n \u201cThe UK\u2019s opposition to boycotts against Israel is well-known. The UK will chair a session at the OECD\u2019s meeting of International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Jerusalem later this month. The decision [not to attend the tourism conference] was due to the unavailability of the relevant delegates.\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Turkey-will-not-attend-OECD-conference-in-Israel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo by: AP By JPOST.COM STAFF\u00a0 10\/13\/2010 19:49 Move described as first official boycott following flotilla affair; Culture and Tourism Minister says “We want tourism to take place, not politics.” A Turkish delegation will not be in attendance at this year’s OECD conference, being held in Jerusalem later this month, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,89],"tags":[1046],"class_list":["post-23385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-turkey","tag-israel-turkey-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n10\/13\/2010 19:49<\/p>\n