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ISTANBUL AIRPORT: TURKEY DETAINS 40 ISRAELIS FOR 90 MINUTES, FOR NO REASON
Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/jewish-culture-in-philadelphia/istanbul-airport-turkey-detains-40-israelis-for-90-minutes-for-no-reason
Sept 7 2011
Add a comment Adam Taxin, Philadelphia Jewish Culture Examiner
September 7, 2011
40 Israeli passengers were held up for no apparent reason for 90
minutes, with passports seized, after their arrival in Istanbul
(formerly Constantinople) Airport.
According to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, the
Israelis, mostly businessmen, were not told why they were taken to
a side room in the airport, where their passports were taken from them.
Israel Radio has reported that, on another flight from Israel to Tel
Aviv, passengers were "humiliated."
It is not known at this point if any of the held-up Israeli passengers
had close ties to the Philadelphia area.
Israeli-Turkish relations have been deteriorating in recent years. A
particularly divisive incident occurred on May 31, 2010 when Israeli
military personnel intervened to prevent a Turkish-sponsored pro-Arab
Muslim "flotilla" from bringing weapons, terrorists and Muslim/Leftist
provocateurs into the Gaza Strip.
Advertisement In 2005, led by its President Abraham Foxman, the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which has been under fire lately,
gave Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan something called
the "Courage To Care Award." In 2007, the ADL fired its New England
regional director after he had the audacity to suggest that the Turkish
(and Kurdish) Muslim extermination of up to 1.5 million Armenian
Christians during World War I should be acknowledged as a "genocide."
Nadia Silk, of Jewish and Armenian descent, and who is on the executive
committee of the Philadelphia Armenian Genocide Walk and an active
member at Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church in Cheltenham,
expressed concern for the travelers. Silk added that: "the current
incident is another reason to be wary of traveling to Turkey ... as
if the despicable failure by its government to recognize, 96 years
later, the Turkish genocide of 1.5 million of its Armenian citizens
weren't enough reason to hesitate before traveling to Turkey."
Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/jewish-culture-in-philadelphia/istanbul-airport-turkey-detains-40-israelis-for-90-minutes-for-no-reason
Sept 7 2011
Add a comment Adam Taxin, Philadelphia Jewish Culture Examiner
September 7, 2011
40 Israeli passengers were held up for no apparent reason for 90
minutes, with passports seized, after their arrival in Istanbul
(formerly Constantinople) Airport.
According to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, the
Israelis, mostly businessmen, were not told why they were taken to
a side room in the airport, where their passports were taken from them.
Israel Radio has reported that, on another flight from Israel to Tel
Aviv, passengers were "humiliated."
It is not known at this point if any of the held-up Israeli passengers
had close ties to the Philadelphia area.
Israeli-Turkish relations have been deteriorating in recent years. A
particularly divisive incident occurred on May 31, 2010 when Israeli
military personnel intervened to prevent a Turkish-sponsored pro-Arab
Muslim "flotilla" from bringing weapons, terrorists and Muslim/Leftist
provocateurs into the Gaza Strip.
Advertisement In 2005, led by its President Abraham Foxman, the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which has been under fire lately,
gave Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan something called
the "Courage To Care Award." In 2007, the ADL fired its New England
regional director after he had the audacity to suggest that the Turkish
(and Kurdish) Muslim extermination of up to 1.5 million Armenian
Christians during World War I should be acknowledged as a "genocide."
Nadia Silk, of Jewish and Armenian descent, and who is on the executive
committee of the Philadelphia Armenian Genocide Walk and an active
member at Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church in Cheltenham,
expressed concern for the travelers. Silk added that: "the current
incident is another reason to be wary of traveling to Turkey ... as
if the despicable failure by its government to recognize, 96 years
later, the Turkish genocide of 1.5 million of its Armenian citizens
weren't enough reason to hesitate before traveling to Turkey."