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Izmir Jewish Community Receives Official Recognition by Turkish State
From the World Jewish Congress The Turkish State has finally recognized the Jewish community in Izmir, the country’s third largest city, as a legal entity. The Directorate General for Foundations (VGM) granted the community foundation status and thus the right to register the community’s immovable properties. Following VGM’s decision, the Izmir Jewish community will be legally considered a foundation with full control over its assets and 22 immovable properties, including 18 synagogues and four stores in the city. Speaking to the newspaper ‘Hürriyet’, VGM official Laki Vingas expressed satisfaction with the decision: “The community was not regarded as a legal more »
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Turkey Reveals Uncomfortable Relationship with Jews
From Algemeiner “Never was any nationality, religion or belief group oppressed in these lands. On the contrary, they were treated as equals, with respect, and their cultural heritages were conserved,” Huseyin Avni Mutlu, Istanbul’s governor, recently said at a Holocaust commemoration ceremony. Still, though twenty thousand Jews currently live in Turkey, all is not as it seems in this Middle Eastern country. Continue Reading: SOURCE
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Romanian Jews Mourn Struma Victims
From Euronews Turkish and Romanian Jews on Friday marked the 70th anniversary of the deaths of 768 Jewish refugees denied shelter by Turkey during World War Two. Their ship, the SS Struma, fled Romania and docked in Istanbul after Britain denied them entry to Palestine. They waited there 70 days. Ishak Alaton, a prominent Turkish Jewish businessman, was a teenager when he helped deliver food packages to the passengers. Continue Reading: SOURCE
Turkey’s Jewish Narrative: Tolerance and Dark Side
From The Associated Press As Turkey welcomes Syrians fleeing violence, the anniversary Friday of the deaths of more than 750 Jewish refugees who were denied shelter by Turkey in World War II was a reminder of perennial tension between pragmatic and humanitarian impulses. The SS Struma, whose passengers fled Romania and docked in Istanbul, was denied entry to Palestinian territory by colonial power Britain. On Feb. 23, 1942, Turkey towed the vessel to the Black Sea and set it adrift. A Soviet torpedo sank it the next morning, and only one person survived. The episode is a stain on an more »
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Rally Planned For Istanbul On Recognition Of Khojaly Genocide
From History of Truth Interview with Orkhan Akbarov, head of the Azerbaijani Students and Alumni International Forum (ASAIF). Q: The anniversary of the Khojaly genocide falls on 26 February. How does your organization, which brings together Azerbaijani students and young people abroad, plan to mark the anniversary? A: I think that in the 20th century the whole world learnt from the Holocaust and other genocides. With this, everyone understood the harm of racism, nationalism and fascism. The world should assess the Khojaly genocide just as it condemned the genocide of the Jews. This year, all democratic values have been turned more »
Israeli Opposition to Armenian Genocide Recognition
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