ADL's Foxman: Erdogan’s statements foster 'distrust and animus toward the Jewish community'
Anti-Defamation League head Abraham Foxman accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of stimulating the growth of anti-Semitism in a public letter Sunday. The two have been corresponding since July, when Foxman urged the Anatolian leader to “publicly reject all expressions of anti-Semitism including the scapegoating of Turkish Jews for the actions of Israel, and assure the Turkish Jewish community that they continue to have the full support and protection of the state and people of Turkey.”
Both the ADL and the American Jewish Congress have expressed alarm at the rise in what the two organizations perceive to be anti-Semitic rhetoric in Turkey during the course of Israel’s recent military conflict with Hamas, including a public request by Erdogan for his country’s Jewish community to condemn Israel.
Toward the end of August, Erdogan replied to Foxman, asserting that Turkish Jewry “need not be concerned with the Turkish public sentiments caused by the recent events in Gaza or feel vulnerable on grounds of anti-Semitism.”
During the conflict, Erdogan compared Israel to Adolf Hitler, terming the country a “terrorist state.”
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ADLs-Foxman-Erdogans-statements-foster-distrust-and-animus-toward-the-Jewish-community-374680
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