ANKARA – Turkey on Tuesday told the Israeli ambassador to temporarily leavethe country in protest at the killing of dozens of Palestinians by Israelitroops on the Gaza border, a foreign ministry official said.

Ambassador Eitan Naeh was summoned to the foreign ministry and told to”return to his country for a period of time”, said the official, who askednot to be named.

The official said that this was also in line with Turkey recalling itsambassador to Tel Aviv for consultations.

Naeh had been in his post only since December 2016 after a reconciliationdeal earlier that year ended a dispute over the deadly storming of aTurkish ship by Israeli commandos that saw ties downgraded for around fiveyears.

Ankara has reacted with fury to the killing Monday of 60 Palestinians inclashes and protests, on the same day as the United States formally movedits embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in defiance ofinternational outrage.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim earlier urged Islamic countries to reviewtheir ties with Israel and said Ankara was calling an extraordinary summitof the world´s main pan-Islamic body on Friday.

“Islamic countries should without fail review their relations with Israel,”Yildirim told his ruling party in parliament.

“The Islamic world should move as one, with one voice, against thismassacre,” he added.

Yildirim added that Turkey had called an “extraordinary summit” of theOrganisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday. Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan currently holds the rotating chairmanship of the body.

It was not immediately clear what format the meeting would take or whomight attend. Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said in parliament thatthe summit would take place in Istanbul.

In an apparent bid to drum up support for the event, Foreign MinisterMevlut Cavusoglu held telephone talks with around a dozen counterparts fromthe Islamic world.

They included the foreign ministers of Jordan, Indonesia and Iran as wellas the OIC secretary general Yousef bin Ahmad al-Othaimeen, foreignministry sources said. – APP/AFP