ANKARA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Turkey will recall its ambassador in Israel if the Jewish state doesn't end a diplomatic row over its snub of the Turkish envoy by Wednesday evening, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Wednesday.

    "If they don't make up for us by this evening, the ambassador will return on the first flight tomorrow," Gul was quoted as saying by the semi-official Anatolia news agency.

    Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday, demanding an apology for the treatment of Turkish ambassador in Tel Aviv Ahmet Oguz Celikkol, who was summoned Monday by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon.

    Ayalon made Celikkol sit on a sofa lower than his own chair and had no Turkish flags displayed during their meeting when he criticized a Turkish TV series "The Valley of The Wolves," Turkishand Israeli media reported.

    Israeli diplomats said the series, which depicted Israeli security forces kidnapping children and shooting old men, contained anti-Israel messages.

    Relations between Turkey and Israel began to sour in December 2008, when Israel launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip.

    In a rare move to protest the 22-day operation, Erdogan stormed out of a debate with Israeli President Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in January 2009.

    Turkey banned Israel from participating in a NATO air force drill in October and later refused to censure a fictional television program that features Israelis killing Palestinians.