The recent strengthening of relations between Turkey and Israel has been defined by some commentators as unusual. If those commentators had given themselves the opportunity to read up on their history, they would have found out that relations between the Turks and the Jews go back more than 500 years. We Sephardim, the descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, take such closeness for granted, because our ancestors have lived it and we are practicing it today in this country and around the world. The convergence of views between the Turkish nation and the Sephardim dates back to our...