sentences:  Not only on a leader-to-leader level but also on a people-to-people level".In January 2009, the Turkish government's condemnation of the 2008–09 Gaza War severely strained relations between the two countries.Erdoğan harshly criticized Israel's conduct in Gaza at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland in early 2009
  
  Relations between the two countries were further strained after the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid.