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Turkey's Prime Minister Sends a Fresh Chill through the Country's Jews
(Wall Street Journal) Mark I. Pinsky - When Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey last week declared Zionism a "crime against humanity," Turkish Jews had fresh reason to worry about the Islamist direction of Erdogan's rule in the once proudly secular state. Officially the Jewish population is 24,000, but Jewish leaders tell me the true number is closer to 14,000 as Jews have been leaving or sending their families abroad. A sense of foreboding was already evident when I visited Turkey a year ago. Among more than a dozen families and Jewish leaders I met with, I didn't find a single one without a child or grandchild living or studying in the U.S., Europe or Israel.