ANKARA: Turkiye`s parliament removed two international brands from its restaurants on Tuesday over their alleged support for Israel, according to an official statement and a source who named the two companies.

The two companies did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

`The products of companies that support Israel will not be sold in restaurants, cafeterias and tea houses in the parliament campus, Turkish`s national assembly said, without identifying the companies. Speaker Numan Kurtulmus made the decision, it added, in order to `support public sensitivity regarding boycotting products of companies who have openly declared their sup-port for Israel`s war crimes (and) killing of innocent people in Gaza` A parliamentary source said a popular beverage and instant coffee of a Swiss company were the only brands removed from menus, adding the decision was meant to respond to `huge public outcry against these companies` for supporting Israel.

Neither the parliament statement nor the source specified how the two global giants supported Israel`s war effort.

Last month the Swiss company said it shut down one of its production plants in Israel as a `precaution`, becoming the first consumer products giant to announce a response to the war.-Reuters