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Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Prof. Piotr Gliński commemorated those who had lost their lives during the great resistance of the Jews, on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews is hosting ´The Sephardic Flavors and Aromas´ exhibition organized within the scope of researching, preserving, spreading, and promoting the Sephardic culture in cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Turkey, Red de Juderias de Espana and Istanbul Cervantes Institute.

Yiğit Özalp, a senior student at Social Sciences High School in the Tire district of Izmir, turned his curiosity about the Jews of Tire into a unique oral history project. Thanks to 19-year-old Özalp, a section on Jewish heritage has been opened at the Tire Town Museum.

President Erdoğan congratulated the Jewish citizens on the Passover Holiday, sharing a message on the presidency website.

El Al Israeli Airlines has announced the beginning of their commercial flights to Turkey once again, after a break of 16 years. The flights operated by Sun d´Or, a subsidiary of El Al, restarted with 3 round trips per week, between Tel Aviv and Istanbul, as of March 30.

Suzan Sevgi, who had worked as the Turkish Deputy Director at the Istanbul Notre Dame de Sion French High School for many years, has been awarded the ...

The Theatre Foundation of Turkey has been conducting a series of conversations at Akbank Sanat titled 'Conversations on History in Our Theatre'. The a...

A committee from the Üsküdar American Academy (ÜAL) visited Ulus Jewish High School (UÖML) on Tuesday. The visitors met with the H...

The Nazi salute incident towards the Ulus Jewish High School students (UÖML) during a high school soccer game last week, displayed clearly that Holocaust education must be included in the curriculum as soon as possible.

Hapoel Abu-Gosh Mevaseret Zion, the only football team founded in Israel as a symbol of living together, consisting of both Jewish and Muslim founders and football players, was in Istanbul last week for a friendship visit.

During the high school soccer tournament, a few students from the Üsküdar American Academy (UAL) soccer team showed their happiness in scoring a goal, by giving a Nazi salute toward the Ulus Jewish High School (UÖML) students.

The interview and autograph day, organized for our newspaper's 'Tünelin Ucu (End of the Tunnel)' corner artist and writer Izel Rozental, by the M...

While the Antakya and Kilis synagogues were slightly damaged during the Kahramanmaraş centered earthquakes that affected 10 cities in Turkey, the Gaziantep Synagogue was not damaged.

The part of the 'Olive Branches' Delegation that had been providing medical aid for the earthquake victims in Turkey, returned to Israel after 7 days ...

Translation by Janet MITRANIDuring the official ceremony held at the Ben Gurion Airport for the Israeli teams', who had saved 19 people from the rubbl...

An official ceremony was organized in Kahramanmaraş on Monday morning, due to the completion of their duties, for the Israeli search and rescue teams that had arrived in Turkey on the day of the earthquake, worked non-stop for a week, and saved 19 people from the rubble as a part of the 450-people ´Olive Branches´ humanitarian aid delegation.

Antakya Jewish Community President Şaul Cenudioğlu and his wife Tuna Cenudioğlu were sent on their final journeys on Sunday, February 12th.

Antakya was one of the cities affected dramatically by the disaster that took place early Monday morning. The city which aid units could not enter for...

Pianist Renan Koen, who has dedicated her life to all forms of music, gave a concert on January 27th for the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, together with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra led by Conductor Gürer Aykal.

The Quincentennial Museum of Turkish Jews has opened its doors to the ´Anybody There? (Orada Kimse Yok mu?)´ exhibition that Safigül Kurtyiğit, the artist from Ankara, prepared based on the Ankara Jewish Quarter. The exhibition can be visited until February 28th.