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The Norwegian Helsinki Committee Freedom of Belief Initiative has published the Monitoring Report on the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Turkey, 2022. The report titled "An Appeal to Move Forward from Aspirations to Actions" covers the legislative, judicial, and administrative developments on the right to freedom of religion or belief between April 2019 and December 2021 in Turkey.

The renowned pianist, composer, soprano, and music therapist Renan Koen performed a concert at the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC, to commemorate Yom Hashoa - Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The ´Black Frame of the History´ Exhibition which the KaraKare committee has prepared under the leadership of Alef youth, is open for visiting until May 8th, at the Neve Shalom Cultural Center.

Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day, where the lives lost during the Holocaust are commemorated, is on Thursday, April 28th this year.

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Turkish Airlines and AnadoluJet have announced that they will be increasing their flights to Israel. They stated that there would be 89 flights between Israel and Turkey during the summer. Among the cities that there will be flights to and from Israel are Istanbul, Antalya, and Muğla.

The renowned pianist Renan Koen will perform the ´Hymns from Auschwitz´ Concert created by Koen herself at the Carnegie Hall in New York on April 20th.

Renan Koen met with music lovers at the Turkish House (Turkevi Center) in New York.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan conveyed his best wishes in the message he shared for the Passover (Pesach) Festival.

The researcher and writer Hanri Benazus´s name is given to a street in Izmir.

The ´Order of the Star of Italy (Ordine della Stella d´Italia)´, awarded by the Italian President, was presented to Rafael Rıfat Behar, Head of the Italian Jewish Community in Turkey, at the Venetian Palace in the Istanbul Italian Consulate on the evening of April 3rd.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during his phone call to Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Friday, condemned the recent terror attacks aimed at Israeli civilians.

The Mayor of Edirne, Recep Gürkan, who has visited Israel together with a committee upon an invitation from the ´Union of the Jews of Turkey in Israel (IYT - Itahdut Yotsei Turkia), signed a Friendship and Partnership Agreement with the Mayor of Bat Yam, Tzvika Brot.

The 530th anniversary of the Sephardic Jews´ arrival in the Ottoman lands was celebrated on the dates March 28-30, with arts and cultural activities organized in Madrid, Spain.

The 17th of the Kadir Has Awards, rewarded every year by the Kadir Has University to the valuable scientists of our country who have accomplished sign...

The traditional International Ladino Day (Dia Internasional Del Ladino / Judeo-Espanyol Estambol) was organized online again on March 20th, Sunday due to the pandemic. There was great participation in the event, from Turkey and many countries of the world, via Zoom and the live stream via the Facebook account of the Sephardic Cultural Research Center.

A panel on fighting racism and discrimination took place in the framework of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum which was held in Antalya, Turkey on March 11-13, 2022.

The war environment in the north of our country, causing the deaths of hundreds of soldiers and civilians, especially children, besides a lot of finan...

US Ambassador to Turkey, Jeffry L. Flake, paid a courtesy visit to the Chief Rabbi of Turkish Jews Rabbi Isak Haleva on Thursday, March 3rd.

This year, the Vehbi Koç Award which is given every year since 2002 in the fields of education, health, and culture respectively, is presented to the Distinguished Professor Dr. Ivet Bahar for her computational molecular and systems biology studies she has pioneered.