Turkey's top antisemitic incidents of 2025

Avlaremoz, a Turkish anti-antisemitism website, listed the top antisemitic incidents in Turkey during 2025 according to its readers.

#1 was from October, when Özlem Zengin, the ruling AKP’s parliamentary group deputy chair, said that Turkey should ban any Holocaust films from being screened as long as Israel is committing "genocide."

Zengin claimed that films about the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews during World War II by Nazi Germany, are being broadcast “morning, noon and night” on Turkish television and streaming platforms.

“I believe these films should be banned in Turkey until Israel’s genocide in Gaza ends,” Zengin said. “While genocide is being committed in Palestine, we turn on our TVs and constantly see Holocaust films. This should not continue.”

#2 was when a group of anti-Israel protesters assaulted a group of Jews going to a Chanukah lighting ceremony in Istanbul.

#3 came in November when young men dressed in Nazi SS uniforms walked freely along Istanbul’s busy Istiklal Avenue, stopping for selfies and even giving a Nazi salute while passers-by laughed and posed with them.

Other nominees included a columnist likening Jews to bacteria. 

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