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18 June 2013 Tuesday
 
 
 
 
 
 

Erdoğan: Jews in Turkey under my protection

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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan chatting with two Jewish men in Brazil's Rio de Jenario on Thursday. (Photo: AA)
22 June 2012 /TODAY'S ZAMAN
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has assured the Jewish community in Turkey of their safety, saying they are under his own protection.

“Under my leadership the Jewish community in Turkey is safe and under my protection. We [Turks] see them as our brothers,” Erdoğan said on Thursday to two American Jews who approached him in Rio de Janeiro, where he was attending the United Nations' Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference.

The two men had asked Erdoğan to protect Jews in Turkey during their conversation, according to the Anatolia news agency. They also asked Erdoğan what he thought about Jews and the people of Israel. Erdoğan responded by saying that Turkey has no problem with the Israeli people. “Our problem is with the aggressive attitude of the Israeli government,” the prime minister said.

He also said that Israel should treat Palestinians well. “We have to find a solution for the problems in the Middle East. Israel should treat Palestinians better,” he said.

Turkey and Israel were once close regional allies but their ties have deteriorated sharply amid Turkish criticism of the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians. Tensions peaked when Israeli commandoes killed eight Turks and one Turkish American on an aid ship on May 31, 2010, when the ship, part of an international flotilla, was trying to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel refused to apologize for the incident, saying its soldiers acted in self-defense, while Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador and suspended military cooperation with the country in response.
 
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@rich, most people know the difference between Israel and Jews. Orthodox Jews are against the state of Israel. Go to and get educated.
AliA
This article is almost 1 week since it apeared, all th people who needed to read they alread did, by extending too long it makes the news a CHEAP PROPAGANDA
Raffi
Regarding to (davit)`s comment both o their last names starts with (E) Mr Erdogan will never ever be like Esad plus you are idiot DAVIT.
a.c
I am confused - wasn't Turkey already a safe heaven for the Greec, Bulgarian and Armenian Christias, the Jews, the Kurds, the Alevis, the Cerkez, the Lasz and other minorities ? what is this man talking about ? can someone explain to me ?
tommy
Jews should thank God for having Mr. Erdoğan as Turkey's PM. If he goes....
J2
The Jews under his protection? It sounds like Europe before the Holocaust when local princelings "protected" the Jews. The Jews in Turkey need to get out and do it now!
Jerri
Just like the Greeks and Armenians lived under the protection of Turkey? Some protection.
Christoph
To Jack the Armenian,how many Turks in present day Armenia, nil, how many Mosque in present day Armenia Nil. There are over 100,000 Armneians in Istanbul alone. If the Turks comitted genecide, why did the Armenians in Istanbul were untouched.
Balkis
Jack, wish you would stop posting nonsense. We are aware that you are a propaganda machine in persuit of discrediting Turks/Turkey but you are failing miserably by expounding falsehood as usual. Jews are not leaving Turkey
AliA
There will be no jews left in Turkey in several years. Over 80% of muslim turks do not want to live next to a jew according to the polls. Sayanora, israelites. Turkey is going to pure pure soon
inge
What Mr. Erdogan fails to recognize is that he could actually be a huge asset in resolving the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. A Noble Peace Prize would be a nice feather in his cap.
Marck
Protection from what? What is the threat?
Random Armenian
What a strange event. Two, no name Jews asking a world leader about what he thinks regarding Jews in general, the people of Israel, asking for protection, and they're twins; at a world summit?? PM Erdogan probably just got physiologically profiled by two Mossad agents. There is something more behi...
Turkish Canadian
Dear Metin merhaba.When you say that Turkey and Ottoman Empire always treated the Jews well, do you include the SS Struma massive killing during 1942 in your description?Or perhaps the 1939 Varlik Vergisi which excepted only the muslims? An answer would be more than welcome.
Chris Athens
To really see what Turks think of Jews just read the posts everyday to Today's Zaman. The are filled with hate and threats against not just Israel, but Jews in general. Posters like General Sherman, for example spew that vemon all the time. For that matter, for Erdogan to state that he will prote...
rich
YUSUF BABA-AntiNazi, What Greece and Romans have to do with the article?...And why you are threatening us and the rest of Europe? And...how you will defeat the whole of a continent?...
Mr. T.
@David, why in the world you are so hateful, loathsome?. How you can live like this? Is this your full-time job posting hateful messages as you do every single time. Have doubts, that's not your real name( of course not!),you are a Kurd, perhaps PKK member/leader. With respect to all Kurdish people,...
covet
Very nice words from Erdogan but jews are already quietly6 leaving. In a few years someone is going to say " Yipes " Where have all the jews gone ! "
bill
David the Aegean Ethiopian (greek), if Turkiye wanted to massacre the kurds they would have been gone hundreds of years ago. You and I both know that the PKK is a terrorist group invented by Soviet Russians.
GeneralSherman
Jack Kaplakian, unlike in orthodox christian (the christian Taliban) countries, the Jews in Turkiye were tolerated. They aren't leaving. There was more than 100,000 of them who only left when Israel was established (they weren't very patriotic; they found out a country had been made there where th...
GeneralSherman
erol, you are either some Aegean Ethiopian pretending to be a kurd or you are a kurd living on welfare in Europe who has never set foot in Turkiye. Either way, I would suggest you don't write about things you obviously know nothing about.
GeneralSherman
And what about Palestinians treating Israelis better and stopping terror attacks against them? How about stopping the hundreds of rocket attacks against Israel? This, you bigot, is the real problem. Jews are not terrorists, you and your people are and that is the truth. Just look at what is happenin...
Tom
Turkey is a strong nation, NO BODY, I MEAN NO BODY, can mass with Turkey.
Raffi
Turkey, and the Ottoman Empire, has always looked after the Jewish people. When Christian Europe was killing them, Jews migrated to the Ottoman Empire where they lived is safety. Erdogan is absolutely right to say that Israel needs to do more for peace and treat Palestinians better. Unlike Netenyahu...
Metin
As if there was any doubt. What a non-issue.
GeneralSherman
What could be worse than that? But then, to be under the protection of the "state" doesn't mean much either in Turkey...
erol
TUEKY WILL DEFEAT NOT ONLY YUNANISTAN BUT THE WHOLE EUROPE WE ARE LIKE HUSBAND AND WIFE SOMETIME WE ARGUE BUT NOTHING WILL NOT SIPERATED US WE WILL REMAIN TOGETHER AND WE WILL DEFEAT THE GREEK AND ROMAN EMPIRE AND AVRUPA WILL BE TURKYE IF THEY WANT TOO IF THEY DO NO NOT WANT TOO WE LOVE TURKISH W...
yusuf baba-ANTI NAZI
THE JEWS LIVED IN PEACE IN PALESTINE FOR 2000 YEARS IT WAS SALAH A DIN WHO PROTECTED THE JEWS FROM THE CRUCEDERS THEN BECACAUSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE OCCUPATION THE JEWS CAME TO SPAIN THEY LIVED PEACFULLY WITH THE ARAB MUSLIMS AND THEY DEVELOPED THE LADINO LANGUAGE AFTER THE CATHOLICS RULED OVER THE ...
YUSUF BABA
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is busy massacring the Kurds for the time being and later can do the same to other communities.
David
If and when a government feels compelled to do this, you can be assured that it is already too late. Jews are now just another Gavur group barely tolerated in the country and like the rest, they are leaving.
Jack Kalpakian
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