"Turkey and Europe
International Herald Tribune
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2005
Jonathan Power downgrades one thousand years of Turkish history of tolerance to one event in 1945 ('Caution on Turkey,' Views, Sept. 16), but this is not enough to taint the country. It was the Ottoman Empire that gave safe heaven to the thousands of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. It was Turkey, not the EU countries, that opened its borders in 1988 to the thousands of Iraqi Kurdish refugees fleeing from the slaughter of Saddam Hussein."
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