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Uzay Bulut
Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara. She is a fellow at the Middle East Forum (MEF) and is currently based in Washington D.C. Bulut’s journalistic work focuses mainly on Turkish politics, ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey, and antisemitism.
Latest posts by Uzay Bulut (see all)
- Turkey’s Genocide Denial: Four Narratives - September 8, 2017
- The Armenian Who Helped Create Today’s Turkish Language - July 11, 2017
- The Evolution of Yannis: From Turkish Nationalist to Jailed Greek Activist - June 23, 2017
Christians,Jews or other faiths are richness of Turkish society.I do not believe that ordinary people who have non-Muslim faith under threat by Turkish people.Because it is contrary to Koran.Koran says that”Do not argue with non Muslims faith Allah will decide between them”That is show us what Muslims must think about the non Muslims.
Tell that to the families of Hrant Dink, Father Santoro, Necati Aydin, Ugur Yuksel, and Tilmann Geske, and many more.
“One day you wake up and see that the neighborhoods of Kurtulus and Ferikoy have been surrounded by anti-Semitic advertisements.”
Well , one day hundreds of thousands of Armenians woke up on April 24 1915 to find ” signs ” stating that they were being ” moved ” because turkey wanted to ” protect ” Armenians and ended up slaughtering and burning and maiming them instead.
“The current Jewish population in Turkey is around 15,000”, Is that just the openly practicing Jews or the secretive Donemeh?
“When the Turkish republic was founded, non-Muslim bureaucrats and public employees—Turkish citizens of Jewish, Anatolian Greek, and Armenian origin—were quickly eliminated and banned from working for public institutions.” Sorry by the time the Republic was founded most Non-Muslims were dead by Turkish State planned genocide, with their property’s and wealth stolen to create the “republic”… Non were bureaucrats nor public employees.
At the time of the 1915-23 massacres of the Armenians and other Christians in Turkey the Jews were excluded from the ranks of the ‘infidels’.Tala’at Pasha the arch-architect of the Armenian Genocide famously told Henry Morgenthau the US Ambassador to Turkey, himself a Jew who was protesting the killing and deportation of Armenians, “Why are you worried? Aren’t you Jewish? We are not killing the Jews, only the Christians!