months and a virtual wave of anti-Jewish feeling has engulfed the country.
In July, the government passed a law forbidding Jews to live in certain specified frontier zones. The law was used as a pretext to carry on pogroms against the Jews in Turkish Thrace. Violent outbreaks against the Jews occurred in Adrianople and Kirlisse. Thousands of Jews were forced to abandon their property and leave hurriedly for Istanbul, Salonica and other points.
Officials responsible for the pogrom were placed on trial by the government, but were acquitted.
The Turkish government, which is headed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha and is dictatorial in nature, at first denied the truth of the pogroms, but later attributed the excesses to overzealous officials.
A half dozen violently anti-Semitic newspapers have been founded in the last year to call for a boycott against the Jews and to advocate adoption of the full Hitler program in regard to the Jews here.
In Adrianople, the schools were prohibited from accepting Jewish children. Pickets were posted outside the Jewish stores, in typical Nazi fashion, and customers told not to buy from Jews under pain of punishment.
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