SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Nationwide campaign to boycott Turkish products reached Baghdad on Saturday, and the Capital’s commerce chamber has decided to do so.
The responses towards Turkey’s deadly bombing have increasingly enlarged and reached all of the different levels of Iraq’s society, some of the reactions were shaped by boycotting Turkish products and halting the tourism industry with Turkey.
In a press statement, head of Baghdad’s commerce chamber Firas al-Hamdani said, “Iraq’s commerce chamber demands all of the traders who work under the chamber’s supervision to boycott Turkish products and halt all of the trading with the country”.
“The boycott campaign is to give Turkey a solid message,” he said.
According to Hamdani’s words, the volume capacity of trading between Turkey and Iraq reaches 20 billion dollars annually, therefore he stressed that “boycotting will damage Turkey’s economy”, and “It is Iraq’s tough message that it has the capability to boycott the country’s products”.
A large nationwide boycotting campaign has engulfed Iraq, since Turkey’s deadly shelling, targeting a resort on Wednesday in Duhok’s Parakh village northwest of the Kurdistan Region.
Nine Arab tourists were killed and 25 were severely injured as the result of the attack, a one-year-old infant was among the dead.
Despite the reactions on the local level, widespread reaction waves hit Turkey from all around the world for targeting civilians.
