TurkeyLate on Monday evening, Ankara announced that it will be recalling its ambassadors in Washington and Tel Aviv.
"What Israel is doing is a genocide," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, according to state-run Anadolu news agency. "Israel is a terrorist state."
Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Turkey will call for a UN General Assembly meeting, as he announced that three days of national mourning will be held to commemorate the Palestinian demonstrators killed in Gaza.
Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for the Turkish president, called the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza "another dark spot, another crime added to Israel's wall of shame".
Kalin took to Twitter to criticise the international community for its silence "in the face of this systematic barbarism".
The Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement the embassy move violated international law and damaged the peace process.
In a statement published late on Sunday, Erdogan said the relocation served to "reward" the Israeli government despite it undermining efforts to resolve the decades-long conflict, while it "punished" Palestinians.
"History and humanity will never forgive the injustices done to our Palestinian brothers," Erdogan said.
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