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The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide

 

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Jews of Turkey

A report on given presentations exploring the 500-year relationship the Sephardic Jewish community had and continues to have with Turks and Turkey, ever since the Jews were welcomed from the Inquisitions; Sephardic Organizations in Turkey and America (2) Views of Some Turkish Jews Today (3) "Who Said that All Jews were Intelligent and Well-Informed?" (4) Debates in the Hebrew Press: Loyalty to the Ottoman Empire (5) Christian Anti-Semitism in the Ottoman Empire
Page Bottom: A few links to spots on the TAT site where Holdwater has "Jewish Reflections"

  Turkey's Role as Savior of Many Jews 


Reports on two unheralded Turkish Schindlers: Selahattin Ulkumen and Necdet Kent. A documentary ("Desperate Hours") relating how Turkey assisted some European Jews fleeing the Holocaust

Turks and Israelis

Fiercely anti-Turkish New York Times columnist William Safire suddenly became a pal when the two nations forged an alliance. (But not for long; the page segues into an examination of the hypocritical columnist.) A Small Backdrop on Relations, going back to 1949, when Turkey became the first Moslem nation to recognize Israel.

Jewish Turks — The Khazars 


Are some Jews... in particular, the Ashkenazi, and even more in particular, Jews from Poland and Russia (that is, the Jews who aren't always crazy about Turks, ironically, as opposed to Sephardic Jews)... a Semitic people? Not necessarily!

Story of Turkish Jews


"The Turkish Jews are also identified as Sephardic Jews. This derives from the word Sepharad which in Hebrew means Spain." A Turkish-Jewish Israeli professor gives a wonderful and sometimes personal backdrop on the story. Learn why Turkish Jews (estimated at 100,000 in Israel) left Turkey for Israel, and the Turkish attitude to Jews.

 

Jewish Spies in Ottoman Palestine


Turkish Jews were known for their loyalty to the Ottoman Empire in its desperate closing hours. However, there were a few who betrayed their nation to the enemy. Pro-Armenian propagandists have been making good use of likening events in Palestine to a "Jewish deportation." Let's get a better idea of what lies behind such claims.

 

Albert Einstein's Partial Solution to Nazi Persecution: Turkey

There was one nation Einstein could count on to save the lives of a number of Jewish academics in Nazi Europe, and that nation was Turkey. Einstein himself was going to call Turkey home, but the USA came to be the better choice. 

Turkey and the Jews of Europe During World War II


Prof. Stanford Shaw provides a run-down on the relationship between Turkey and the European Jews of WWII 

Genocide? This American says “NO!”

Renee Abramson has written an insightful article with a slant on Jewish-Turkish relations.


 


 

 


 
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