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Turkey: Anti-Semitism was widespread in 2020
Turkey: Anti-Semitism was widespread in 2020
Many leading figures from government authorities to political opposition and the media spread Jew-hatred in a country that is a NATO member and a candidate for European Union membership.
(February 8, 2021 / JNS) “The Holocaust story is exaggerated,” “Israel does not get enough of blood and wealth,” “Jews kidnapped Christian children and performed rituals with their blood,” “Jews has sent coronavirus to Turkey to exterminate Turks” …
Those were some of the Jew-hating statements publicly made in Turkey in 2020 by authors, newspapers, members of the public and even the president of the country.
Voice of America.
Akit TV, notorious for its Jew-hating reporting, trimmed, distorted and cherry-picked parts of the documentary to further spread antisemitism in Turkey. Sentences and images in the documentary were cut and the statements of the Jewish interviewees living in Turkey were altered in an attempt to make Jews a target. Among the Turkish Jews targeted were lawyer Betsy Penso, scholar Rifat Bali and Ivo Molinas, the editor-in-chief of the Jewish weekly
Şalom, among others.
6. The pro-government newspaper
Yeni Akit published a report repeating the “blood libel” and “the barrel with needles” lies that caused widespread Jew-hatred and persecution in medieval and early modern history.