'Turkse staat faciliteert antisemitisme'

Once marginal in Turkish politics, anti-Semitism is now been co-opted, if not incited, by Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan and his ruling party. How can Turkish Jews stay when they're now considered the enemy? This public display of anti-Semitism just did not suddenly reveal itself this week, Rather, it can be traced back to last year’s Gezi protest. The mass civil-society protest was brutally silenced by the Turkish government, but not before “international Jewry” was ‘identified’ as one of its main culprits by Prime Minister Erdogan, who claimed it was the work of the “interest-rate lobby,” a term regularly attributed to Jewish financiers and media moguls.

@Istanbultelaviv @haaretzcom allow me to remind you PM Erdogan shouting & slapping a protester in Soma while shouting "spawn of Israel"

— Fercan Yalinkilic (@FercanY) July 24, 2014