Evil anti-Jewish, anti-zionists, Islamic Turks.19 april 2011 - Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News is reporting that Turkey’s Jewish population is starting to decline: Migration to Israel and a death rate twice that of new births are causing a decrease in the size of the Jewish community in Turkey, according to its representatives.
Economic considerations are the main driver behind migration and are also a factor in the decision by many students studying abroad not to return to Turkey after completing their education, representatives of the 20,000-strong Jewish community have said.
Curiously, the paper does not name the representatives with whom it spoke. Also strange is that Turkey’s economy is booming. That Turkey’s Jews stayed during recession, but flee during an economic boom suggests that perhaps economic motivations are not to blame. A much more plausible explanation—and one to which Turkish Jews attest privately—is that Turkey’s Jewish community is fleeing because of the flames of hatred fanned by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Islamist and fiercely anti-Semitic prime minister. The Ottoman Empire welcomed Jews after their expulsion from Spain. Alas, Erdogan seems determined to reverse a more than 600-year legacy of Turkish tolerance.
Alas, for Turkey’s Jews, “Next Year in Jerusalem” may no longer be a declaration at the end of their Seder, but increasingly could become a plan for self-preservation.
Source: commentarymagazine.com
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