Turkish Press, Officials Praise Jews’ Role in Quake Relief

Government officials and leading newspapers have joined in denouncing the anti-Semitic newspaper Cumhuriyet for publishing an article asserting that Jews had remained unmoved by the earthquake disaster and were not sufficiently responding to appeals for aid to the victims. Governor General Lufti Kirdar of Istanbul, at a press conference, took pains to praise the aid extended by “our Jewish compatriots,” who he said were participating in the disaster relief “with the fullest means at their disposal.”