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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 641

anti-Semitism in Turkey

Illustrative: Members of Turkey's parliament vote to send Turkish troops to Libya to help the UN-supported government in Tripoli battle forces loyal to a rival administration in eastern Libya, January 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
July 10, 2024, 7:22 pm
Turkish Islamist party proposes bill punishing citizens who serve in IDF
Proposal by extremist party calls for revoking citizenship of Turkish nationals who fought in Gaza and for confiscating their assets
By ToI Staff
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters in Istanbul, Turkey, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
April 20, 2024, 4:57 am
To punish Israel for Gaza war, Turkey’s citizens will gladly suffer the economic cost
Political pressure forced Turkey’s hardline leader Erdogan to reluctantly halt the export of 54 products to the Jewish state – but much of the public still thinks that’s not enough
By Bartu Eken
Mayor Einat Kalisch-Rotem and members of the Armenian Christian community of Haifa during the renaming ceremony of the Armenian Genocide Square in Haifa, Israel on March 20. (Haifa Municipality)
April 4, 2023, 5:29 pm
Turkey’s feathers ruffled by Haifa’s newly unveiled Armenian Genocide Square
The northern city, where many ethnic Armenians live, is the first Israeli municipality to give such recognition to the World War I atrocities
By Canaan Lidor
The festival included concerts of Jewish and Ladino music, traditional food tastings and lectures on Izmir’s Jewish community. (David I. Klein/JTA)
January 7, 2023, 10:55 am
In Izmir, a festival revives a Sephardic jewel and douses anti-Jewish stereotypes
Once known in Greek as Smyrna, the city has had a Jewish presence since antiquity, with church documents mentioning Jews from the 2nd century CE. Today, fewer than 1,300 remain
By David I. Klein
Mourners gather around the coffins of four out of eight Palestinian migrants who died off the Tunisian coast, during their funeral at a mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 18, 2022. (AP/Fatima Shbair)
January 6, 2023, 12:04 pm
As young Gazans die at sea, anger rises over Hamas leaders’ extended sojourns abroad
In recent months, high-profile officials have quietly decamped to upscale hotels in Beirut, Doha and Istanbul, stirring resentment among residents of the impoverished Strip
By AP and ToI Staff
Left: Enes Kanter Freedom poses with students at Brooklyn Amity School when he visited on Monday, June 13 2022; Right: Kanter Freedom playing for the Portland Trailblazers in the NBA (Courtesy/ via JTA)
June 22, 2022, 2:02 am
NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom brings Holocaust education to Muslim school in Brooklyn
Raised in Turkey, the basketball center is outspoken about human rights violations in his home country and around the world, and believes knowledge of the genocide can unite people
By Jacob Henry
People walk next to Taksim mosque as the sun sets during the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Istanbul, Turkey, April 2, 2022. (AP/Francisco Seco)
June 14, 2022, 12:41 am
Israelis in Istanbul were whisked away as Iranian assassins waited at hotel — report
Tourists were warned of immediate threat while out shopping and rushed to airport, report says; Turkish intelligence nabs several Iranians suspected of being IRGC operatives
By ToI Staff
A full moon rises above the iconic Haghia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, early May 16, 2022. (Mucahid Yapici/AP)
June 13, 2022, 4:00 pm
Israelis told to leave Istanbul, stay away from Turkey, amid Iran terror threat
Severe travel warning issued for Istanbul, and Lapid urges against all travel to Turkey, after Israeli, Turkish security forces said to thwart plot to kidnap, kill Israeli tourists
By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman
Dignitaries and Jewish community members watch a dancer perform at the Izmir Sephardic Cultural Festival in Izmir, Turkey, November 30, 2021. (Courtesy of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality/ via JTA)
February 20, 2022, 8:31 am
Under Erdoğan, Turkish authorities are leading a revival of Jewish heritage
Some say the cultural rejuvenation is an act by the president to cover his inherent antisemitism, while others say it represents a genuine interest in the community’s past
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rabbi Mendy Chitrik takes a selfie at sunset in Turkey on August 9, 2021. (Courtesy of Chitrik/via JTA)
August 14, 2021, 4:19 pm
Chabad rabbi tweets unusual 3-week Jewish heritage road trip deep into Turkey
Mendy Chitrik, chair of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, works to support Jewish life in Muslim countries while busting cultural myths
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this March 24, 2021, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he speaks during his ruling party's congress inside a packed sports hall in Ankara, Turkey. (Turkish Presidency via AP, File)
May 19, 2021, 7:11 pm
Turkish Jews defend Erdogan against antisemitism charge by US
Main Jewish group calls it ‘unfair and reprehensible’ to imply Turkey’s leader is a Jew-hater after he branded Israelis ‘murderers’ and baby killers
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Pupils wearing protective facemasks listen to a teacher in a classroom of a school in Ankara on March 2, 2021, after the country lifted restrictions measures against the COVID-19 pandemic in regions with lower infection rates. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)
March 4, 2021, 10:53 pm
Monitoring group: School textbooks in Turkey call Jews and Christians ‘infidels’
Curriculum radicalization began under Erdogan following failed 2016 coup attempt; Israeli-Palestinian conflict described as a religious war against Muslims
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this file photo taken on July 11, 2018, Turkish police officers escort Adnan Oktar (C) in Istanbul, as he is arrested on fraud charges (DOGAN NEWS AGENCY / AFP)
January 12, 2021, 4:48 pm
Turkish sex cult televangelist jailed for 1,075 years for abuse
Adnan Oktar, who hosted Israeli politicians and renounced his Holocaust denial, found guilty of assault, sexual abuse of minors, fraud, attempted political and military espionage
By AFP and ToI Staff
Opposition nationalist lawmaker Lutfu Turkkan in Ankara, Turkey, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
November 17, 2019, 5:41 pm
Turkish MP lashes out at Jewish journalist who criticized anti-Semitic tweet
Lütfü Türkkan has history of anti-Jewish tweets and has previously urged Turkey to declare Israel a ‘terrorist state’
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018, in Draketown, Georgia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
May 1, 2019, 2:15 pm
Report: Anti-Semitic attacks spike, killing highest number of Jews in decades
Tel Aviv University researchers say governments on 3 continents promoted anti-Semitism in 2018, single out officials in Venezuela, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine
By Agencies
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