(JTA) — President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey threatened to halt steps being taken toward normalization with Israel if it does not end its support for an independent Kurdish state. “If Israel does not reconsider its support for Kurdish independence, Turkey will not be able to take many steps we would have with Israel, too,”…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Security Agency uncovered a money laundering scheme that transferred funds to Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank from Turkey via Hebron. The fund transfers, which began in 2016, provided more than $210 million to Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza, according to the Israel Security Agency, also known…
(JTA) — A Turkish reporter admitted that he fabricated a quote by Jared Kushner in which President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser reportedly said Turkish President Recep Erdogan “is making Turkey great again like [the] U.S. We watch his efforts with appreciation.” Yavuz Atalay, a reporter for the newspaper AKSAM, told The Daily Caller Thursday that he…
(JTA) — For the second time in less than a week, protesters demonstrated against Israel outside a synagogue in Istanbul. The latest incident reported in the Turkish media occurred on Saturday outside the Ahrida Synagogue on the European side of the Turkish capital, in the north of the neighborhood of Fatih, which is a stronghold…
(JTA) — Leaders of Turkish Jewry condemned demonstrators who rallied around a synagogue in Istanbul to protest against Israel, including men who kicked the building’s doors and hurled objects at it. The Turkish Jewish Community on Twitter called the incident Thursday night outside the Neve Shalom synagogue, where several dozen men gathered with anti-Israel signs,…
Israel has paid total compensation of $20 million to the families of the victims of an Israeli raid on a Turkish aid flotilla that killed 10 people in 2010, Turkish media quoted Turkey’s Finance Minister Naci Agbal as saying on Friday. The payment, which will be divided among the 10 families, comes some nine months…
The news from Turkey, arguably the most modernized of all Muslim nations, has been depressing lately. The country has suffered a string of terrorist attacks, and a bloody coup attempt in July 2016. Meanwhile, Turkey’s democratic credentials have declined dramatically. According to the nongovernmental organization Freedom House, in terms of press freedom the country entered…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey called on Turks to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque often to protect its Muslim identity and accused Israel of “massacres” against the Palestinians. “Turkey attaches great importance to the justified resistance of the Palestinians and will not yield to Israeli attempts to change the status quo in the…
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