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The rejection of their national minority rights by the Jews of Turkey is condemned by the “Jewish Daily News,” of Aug. 9, as an irresponsible act that will hurt the Jewish cause in the other countries where national minority rights have been stipulated in treaties.
“The leaders of Turkish Jewry,” the paper declares, “have stabbed the Jews of Eastern Europe in the back and have caused injury and disgrace to the Jewish interests in many countries of Europe.”
Explaining its attitude the paper proceeds to say:
“In the same resolution wherein the Turkish Jews renounce their minority rights, they ask the government to establish the legal status of the Kehillah and that the government continue its contributions for the maintenance of Jewish institutions. In other words, those who have renounced their minority rights would like the government to grant such rights or some of them, but this should be in the form of an act of grace, to signify that the Jews are not entitled to anything, that they have no rights as a minority, and they ask merely a favor from the Turkish government. Such an attitude lends no honor to the Turkish Jews and shows that they have fallen spiritually.
“The assertion of the Turkish Jewish leaders,” we are told further “that since
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