As with other anti-Israel statements out of Turkey, the Western news media rarely associates them with antisemitism. The narrative that Muslims aren't antisemitic, and only anti-Zionist, and antisemitism is regarded as anomalous, with Turkey insisting that the Jews were welcome members of the Ottoman Empire.
But a quick survey of Turkish news media, looking for the word "Jews" ("Yahudiler"), finds that Turkey's media is just as antisemitic as any Arab state. Few are discussing this.
Here are some examples of classic antisemitism in Turkish media from just the past week.
In Dogruhaber, an article by Dr. Abdulkadir Turan who has written many antisemitic articles in recent months starts off by freely admitting and glorifying Turkish antisemitism:
Among us, the most serious insult was to call someone a beraz (pig) or a jew (jew). ....What does a Jew do? He destroys faith with his insidiousness. If he sells you something, he cheats, gets inside you and makes you fight each other. With these characteristics, all the evils that Muslims face in our classical works are somehow associated with a Jew.
In Ardahan Haber, Dr. Meryem Çıldır spins an insane antisemitic conspiracy theory blaming all Turkish ills on Jews:
According to the evil and know-it-all Zionist Jews, everyone on earth who says “There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God” is a terrorist. The child of a mother and father who recites the Shahada should be killed while still a baby by tons of bombs being dropped on him, or by phosphorus bombs being dropped on him and his bones being reduced to dust,According to the Zionist Jewish imperialist terrorists, anyone who confirms this should be killed, destroyed, and never given the right to life; The logic is that they should be tortured, left hungry and thirsty, and even burned to death in agony…
She goes on to claim that an opposition Muslim movement in Turkey was "founded by Zionists' and then that Israel's territorial aims are not only fromt he Nile to the Euphrates but also parts of Turkey, Libya and Iran. And then she blames Jews for homosexuality in Turkey (but notes that Turkish doctors are coming up with cures.)
A series of articles in Ilke Kocaeli claim Jews, including Chabad, are trying to take over northern Cyprus.
Yeni Akit and other news sites say that Jews control America:
When it comes to the demands of the Zionist Jews, it makes no difference whether those who come to power are Democrats or Republicans.Because the American deep state is in their hands.All the cosmic rooms of the USA have been taken over by Zionist Jews.The entire USA has become a toy serving the desires and interests of the Jews. Now let's take a look at Kamala Harris: Her father is Jamaican, her mother is Indian, she is very close to Joe Biden's son, she is famous for preventing pedophilic perverts from being punished while she was the Attorney General of the State of California, she is strongly supported by the son of Hungarian Jew Soros, she is the most ardent defender of the so-called Armenian genocide lies, she practically shouts at every opportunity and everywhere that she serves the Jews with all her heart...
Again, this is only this week. I didn't see any articles sympathetic to Jews in Turkish media. (The only Muslim majority country I have seen that consistently publishes positive articles about Jews is Morocco.)
Antisemitism is mainstream in European Turkey, a member of NATO and which aspires to join the EU.
Shouldn't Western countries be more critical of Turkey's antisemitism than that of Arab Muslim countries? et I have yet to hear (as of this writing) any criticism from NATO about its member state threatening to invade Israel.
If we cannot even have a conversation about Muslim antisemitism, we cannot possibly fight against it.
