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Monday, July 23, 2007

Fears of an Islamic Turkey push Jews to vote for secularists | Jerusalem Post

"Fears of an Islamic Turkey push Jews to vote for secularists
By YIGAL SCHLEIFER / JTA

With a synagogue, two kosher butchers and a beach club where Jewish teens can listen to loud Turkish pop music, the verdant island of Buyukada is the summer home of Istanbul's Jews.

Buyukada, about an hour on the ferry from Istanbul, also has a kosher restaurant, and on a recent Sunday evening Nisim Cohen, a 30-something textile manufacturer clad in shorts and a polo shirt, sat with his family on its deck overlooking the blue waters of the Marmara Sea."

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