Posted on 07/20/2017 6:20:37 PM PDT by Lera
A group of Turkish ultra-nationalists on Thursday protested outside one of the most significant synagogues in Istanbul to denounce Israel’s security measures at the Temple Mount following a deadly attack last Friday that left two Israeli police officers dead, the Dogan news agency said.
The group from the Alperen Hearths, a far-right ultranationalist and Islamist youth group, said in a statement read outside the Neve Salom synagogue in central Istanbul that Israel was a “terror state” seeking to block freedom for worship to Muslims.
“If you prevent our freedom of worship there then we will prevent your freedom of worship here,” said the statement, read by the group’s local chairman Kursat Mican.
The Foundation of the Turkish Chief Rabbinate — which looks after the country’s small Jewish community mainly concentrated in Istanbul — angrily criticized the protest.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
I recall several years ago when 3 Protestant Ethnic Turks were murdered in their “home church” before Obola became President.
Since at least then it hasn’t been safe for Jews & Christians. Why they still linger there is beyond me.
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