Mayor’s efforts pay off as Turkish and Israeli visitors flock to discover their ‘own’ Thessaloniki
By Iota Myrtsioti
History professor Peled Barzilai pays close attention as a guide shows the group of Israeli tourists from Netanya around Thessaloniki’s Yeni (New) Mosque, built in 1902 for the northern port city’s Donmeh community – Jews in the Ottoman Empire who publicly converted to Islam while privately observing a mystical form of Judaism.
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