"What's Wrong with Turkey?
By Gamaliel Issac
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 12, 2005
In my previous article, Turkey's Dark Past I exposed the falseness of the claims of Mustafa Akyol that �Turkey has had an Islamic heritage free of anti-Westernism and anti-Semitism� Mr. Akyol wrote a rebuttal, What�s Right With Turkey, in which he argued that the Turks have a great record when it comes to the Jews and that when the Jews were expelled from Spain, they were welcomed by the Sultan. In addition he writes that Jews expelled from Hungary in 1376, from France by Charles VI in September 1394, and from Sicily early in the 15th century found refuge in the Ottoman Empire. Mustapha Akyol points out that the blood libel and other such standard anti-Semitic nonsense was unknown in Muslim lands until the 19th century and that these were introduced to the Middle East by the 'westernized' elite, who had been infected by the anti-Semitic plague from its ultimate source: Europe. He points out that Mr. Salahattin Ulkumen, Consul General at Rhodes in 1943-1944, was recognized by the Yad Vashem as a Righteous Gentile 'Hassid Umot ha'Olam' in June 1990 for his efforts to save Jews and how Marseilles vice-consul Necdet Kent, boarded a railway car full of Jews bound for Auschwitz, risking his own life in an attempt to persuade the Germans to send them back to France. "
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