"Discovering Turkey from a Jewish Perspective
By Connie Kreshtool
I didn’t know much about Turkey, never mind Jewish Turkey, when I agreed to accompany my friend Cora Carlis on a tour of the country. She was intrigued by the strategic position of Turkey and its political ramifications. It has common borders with Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Greece and its largest city, Istanbul, straddles both Europe and Asia. I was curious about the history of the Jews in Turkey. So we arranged a trip that would satisfy both of us. This article will only describe what we found in our search for Jewish Turkey and it is only a snapshot of what was most interesting to us. I will begin from the beginning although this is not the order in which we visited the sites."
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