The German language book "Antisemitism in and from Turkey" is edited by Corry Guttstadt, whom you can see in this 2015 lecture about Turkish antisemitism and how Turkey created the fictional story of rescuing tens of thousands of Jews in the Holocaust. In reality, Turkey knowingly allowed Jews to die.
Since October 7, things have gotten exponentially worse for Jews in Turkey.
One need only look at the Twitter/X account of the Jewish community in Turkey. Their weekly "Shabbat Shalom" messages, often with a prayer for peace, have antisemitic responses. Even their commemoration of the anniversary of the deadly February 2023 earthquake received antisemitic responses.
Nazi symbols have been found in Turkish schools in reported antisemitic incidents.
A man proudly posted a video of himself teaching his young son to murder Jews.
A Turkish bookseller posted a notice that no Jews were allowed in his shop.
When Turkish president Erdogan's AKP party lost in some local elections, people blamed Jewish vote manipulation.
I had reported about the hysteria in Turkey where the media falsely claimed that 4,000 Turkish Jews are fighting in Gaza. A new bill was introduced that would revoke the citizenship of Turkish nationals who served in the IDF in Gaza and allow for the confiscation of their assets.
Perhaps the epicenter of Turkish antisemitism is the newspaper Yeni Şafak, which has close ties to Turkish president Erdogan. In response to the "secret Chabad tunnels" story in January it published lurid accounts of the classic blood libel, saying that Jews were murdering gentile children in those tunnels in Brooklyn to use their blood in Jewish rituals.
This post is still on Instagram today and received over 58,000 "likes."
This isn't "anti-Zionism." This is state-approved Jew-hatred.
