(Ha'aretz) Noa Landau and Jonathan Lis - In response to the events in Gaza, the Turkish Foreign Ministry ordered Israeli Ambassador Eitan Naeh to leave the country. In response, Israel ordered the Turkish consul in Jerusalem, Husnu Gurcan Turkoglu, to return home. Turkey then summoned Israel's consul general in Istanbul, Yossi Levi Safri, and asked him to leave. After Turkish President Erdogan criticized Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday, Netanyahu responded: "A man who sends thousands of Turkish soldiers to hold the occupation of northern Cyprus and invades Syria will not preach to us when we defend ourselves from an attempt by Hamas. A man whose hands are stained with the blood of countless Kurdish citizens in Turkey and Syria is the last person to preach to us about combat ethics."
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