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Turkey Needs to Change its Policy and Rhetoric Toward Religious Minorities | Opinion Newsweek 4/29/2021 Aykan Erdemir and Nadine Maenza © Adem ALTAN / AFP/Getty President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives to give a press conference after the cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey, on September 21, 2020. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stunned his country s Christians and Jews by publicly using the slur gavur (infidel), a pejorative designation for non-Muslims, to criticize his political opposition. Such name-calling reflects the systematic discrimination Turkish Christians and Jews face, and can only accelerate their ongoing exodus from a land where they have lived for two millennia. Ankara needs to change not only its rhetoric but also its policy to reverse the alarming trends that have brought religious minority communities to the brink of extinction.

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