INTERVIEW

In the perspective of enhanced Turkish-Israeli relations, 4 answers to 4 questions on Turkish Jewish Lobbying with Denis Ojalvo...

Rabbi Mendy Chitrik has turned the trips he had been taking to inspect the factories having kosher certificates, into road trips where he had been following the lost traces of the Jewish heritage in Anatolia, especially in recent years. We talked about his exceptional 26-day-long travel where he chased Jewish traces on a route from Çanakkale to Nemrut, from Sakarya to Anamur.

UÖML (Ulus Jewish High School) students who have received grades above the world average in the International AP (Advanced Placement) exams, were honored by American College Board. UÖML´s 2021 graduates have been placed in distinguished universities in Turkey and abroad, once again.

Deniz Bensusan´s last film ´Bluebird Society´ has been shown at Cannes Film Festival on July 11th. Director Deniz Bensusan had made a name for herself with ´The Final Hour´. In the short film written and directed by Bensusan, produced by Eda Çarıkçı, Buket Gülbeyaz is personating Efil, who pursues her questions and doubts in a world where there is no unhappiness. We talked to Deniz Bensusan about her latest film.

Pianist, composer, soprano, music therapist Renan Koen who has placed the ´Positive Resistance´ concept in our framework of thinking, through her research and studies on Holocaust composers, and who aims to inform people all around the world with her concerts and educations, is with us, this time, with her brand-new work.

The second project of the Izmir Jewish Community Foundation: ´Strengthening the Izmir Jewish Community through Inclusive Leadership´.

Born in the USA in 1985, Avi Amon, of Turkish origin, is a versatile artist. The operas ´Salonika´ and ´Inşallah / Maşallah´ the composer-pianist-educator Avi Amon composed with inspiration from his roots and his Sephardic culture, made a great impact in the music world. We talked with the artist, whose goal is to rediscover the fading cultures, about his music and his works...

During his visit to Istanbul, we met with Mr. Javier Hergueta, the Ambassador of Spain to Ankara. We discussed Turkey-EU relations. We also talked about the Covid and vaccination situation in Spain, the second-generation vaccine that they are developing, and the law that grants Spanish nationality to Sephardic people.

We talked with the Former Chief of Staff of the Naval Forces Command, academician, writer Admiral Cihat Yayci, Turkey´s Foreign Policy concerning the Eastern Mediterranean.