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JEWS LEAVING TURKEY OVER SECURITY CONCERNS: COMMUNITY MEMBER
December 16, 2014 - 15:05 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Many people from Turkey's Jewish community are
leaving the country after increased threats and attacks, a businessman
from the community has written in an article for the Istanbul-based
Jewish newspaper Å~^alom, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
"We face threats, attacks and harassment every day. Hope is fading. Is
it necessary for a 'Hrant among us' to be shot to make the government,
the opposition, civil society, our neighbors and jurists see this?"
Mois Gabay wrote, referring to the murder of Armenian-Turkish
journalist Hrant Dink in 2007.
Gabay, a professional in the tourism industry, added that increasing
numbers of Turkish Jews are making plans to move abroad with their
families, feeling unsafe and under pressure in the country.
"Around 37 percent of school graduates from the Jewish community
in Turkey prefer to go abroad for higher education ... The number
doubled this year," he wrote.
Gabay's column came a few days after verbal attacks on the Neve Shalom
Synagogue in Istanbul's Beyoglu district, which has been previously
attacked with explosives in 1986, 1992 and 2003. A paper reading
"to be demolished" was stuck on the entrance of the synagogue by an
unknown group two weeks ago.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/186194/
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/jews-leaving-turkey-due-to-safety-concerns.aspx?pageID=238&nID=75670&NewsCatID=339
From: A. Papazian
December 16, 2014 - 15:05 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Many people from Turkey's Jewish community are
leaving the country after increased threats and attacks, a businessman
from the community has written in an article for the Istanbul-based
Jewish newspaper Å~^alom, according to Hurriyet Daily News.
"We face threats, attacks and harassment every day. Hope is fading. Is
it necessary for a 'Hrant among us' to be shot to make the government,
the opposition, civil society, our neighbors and jurists see this?"
Mois Gabay wrote, referring to the murder of Armenian-Turkish
journalist Hrant Dink in 2007.
Gabay, a professional in the tourism industry, added that increasing
numbers of Turkish Jews are making plans to move abroad with their
families, feeling unsafe and under pressure in the country.
"Around 37 percent of school graduates from the Jewish community
in Turkey prefer to go abroad for higher education ... The number
doubled this year," he wrote.
Gabay's column came a few days after verbal attacks on the Neve Shalom
Synagogue in Istanbul's Beyoglu district, which has been previously
attacked with explosives in 1986, 1992 and 2003. A paper reading
"to be demolished" was stuck on the entrance of the synagogue by an
unknown group two weeks ago.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/186194/
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/jews-leaving-turkey-due-to-safety-concerns.aspx?pageID=238&nID=75670&NewsCatID=339
From: A. Papazian