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by Burak Bekdil
• September 6, 2014 at 5:00 am
If
you are a Jew in Turkey not even a funeral is peaceful.
Just
imagine a Turkish Jew having a legal dispute with a Muslim Turk and
facing this judge in the courtroom...
As
usual, apparently Muslims are allowed to kill Muslims as they like, only
Jews are not.
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Zafer Caglayan (right), a former economy minister
indicted for taking bribes, said of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen
(left): "A Jew or an atheist or a Zoroastrian would do all these
things to us. Shame on them if these things are done by those who claim
to be Muslim. How can a Muslim do this?" (Image source: Wikimedia
Commons)
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Nearly three years ago, the Israeli news site Ynetnews.com published
an opinion piece written by a Turkish-Jewish girl. She wrote: "…I
have never had the need to discuss my Jewish identity, let alone my
Israeli identity… We are a Jewish family with a connection to Israel, and
as fit for a Turkish family we enjoy... freedom of religious rituals and
worship. Holidays and vacations, Jewish schools, synagogues, and Jewish
after-school clubs, all out in the open, and with no reason to fear…
(Nov. 17, 2011)"
Just when I suspected that the author must be describing a Turkey
other than the one I lived in, her final line confirmed that it was the
same Turkey: "Despite my love for Turkey, I have chosen to remain
anonymous, in case, well, you know..." Well, I knew...
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