Israel recommends citizens to avoid visiting Turkey saying there is a continuing threat against Israel and Jewish targets there.

Israel recommends citizens to avoid visiting Turkey saying there is a continuing threat against Israel and Jewish targets there. (JP)

A day after the deadly blast in Istanbul that killed three Israelis, the Counter-terrorism Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office called on Israelis to avoid visiting the country all together.

The new advisory is a more stringent one than the one that has been in place since August 2014, advising Israelis to refrain only from unnecessary travel to Turkey, saying there is a continuing threat against Israel and Jewish targets there.

The new advisory reads as follows: “Due to a worsening in the number of attacks in Turkey in tourist areas and crowded places, and focusing on the attack in central Istanbul (19.3.16) -- during which Israeli citizens were killed and wounded -- and amid a concern about future attacks, the counter-terrorism bureau is making more stringent the existing travel advisory to the country and recommends avoiding visiting Turkey.”

The advisory was upgraded from a Level 4 warning of the threat of potential attacks, to a Level 3 warning of the threat of concrete attacks.   Hmmm.....When will the other countries follow their lead? Will they wait till their own people get killed?

#Turkey: #ISIL bomber followed #Israel tourist group from the moment they left their hotel in Beşiktaş district, trailed them to Istiklal.

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) March 21, 2016

The bomber lurked outside of a restaurant where #Israel tourists had a breakfast, approached'em on their exit & detonated the bomb. #Turkey

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) March 21, 2016

Israel is advising against all travel to #Turkey (Two levels higher than prior to the #Istanbul attack)

— Michael Horowitz (@michaelh992) March 20, 2016

@michaelh992 From what i understand the Israeli victims were part of a group on a culinary trip to #Turkey. Probably targeted as a group.

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) March 20, 2016