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TURKEY: JEWS ARE "LEAVING DUE TO SAFETY CONCERNS", NEWSPAPER
ANSA English Media Service, Italy
December 17, 2014 Wednesday 12:10 PM CET
(ANSAmed) - ISTANBUL, DECEMBER 17 - Many people from Turkey's Jewish
community are leaving the country after increased threats and attacks,
a prominent businessman from the community has written in an article
for the Istanbul-based Jewish newspaper Salom. "We face threats,
attacks and harassment every day. Hope is fading. Is it necessary
for a 'Hrant among us' to be shot in order for the government, the
opposition, civil society, our neighbours and jurists to see this?"
Mois Gabay wrote as reported by Cypriot daily Famagusta Gazette
online. He was 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% of high school graduates from the Jewish
community in Turkey prefer to go abroad for higher education ... This
number doubled this year compared to the previous years," he wrote. It
is not only students, who have begun to think about building a life
abroad for their families and children, but also young businesspeople
according to Gabay. In a recent interview with Radikal, Gabay also
said changes in the law and the recognition of hate crimes in the
Turkish penal code are not sufficient for the protection of Turkey's
Jewish community.
From: Baghdasarian
ANSA English Media Service, Italy
December 17, 2014 Wednesday 12:10 PM CET
(ANSAmed) - ISTANBUL, DECEMBER 17 - Many people from Turkey's Jewish
community are leaving the country after increased threats and attacks,
a prominent businessman from the community has written in an article
for the Istanbul-based Jewish newspaper Salom. "We face threats,
attacks and harassment every day. Hope is fading. Is it necessary
for a 'Hrant among us' to be shot in order for the government, the
opposition, civil society, our neighbours and jurists to see this?"
Mois Gabay wrote as reported by Cypriot daily Famagusta Gazette
online. He was 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% of high school graduates from the Jewish
community in Turkey prefer to go abroad for higher education ... This
number doubled this year compared to the previous years," he wrote. It
is not only students, who have begun to think about building a life
abroad for their families and children, but also young businesspeople
according to Gabay. In a recent interview with Radikal, Gabay also
said changes in the law and the recognition of hate crimes in the
Turkish penal code are not sufficient for the protection of Turkey's
Jewish community.
From: Baghdasarian