The reports concerning anti-Jewish persecutions in Turkey which arose due to the incident at the funeral of the Jewish girl, Elsa Niego, were denied by the Turkish ambassador here in a statement issued to the Vienna press.
“Hostility to Jews in Turkey is as unthinkable as legal disabilities for them in our country,” the ambassador declared. “The contrary is true. Jews in Turkey enjoy the respect of the general Turkish population.”
In his statement the ambassador endeavors to convey the impression that the reports were circulated by “the enemies of Turkey” and “perhaps Greece, who attempts to expoit in the foreign press a police affair at which a number of Jews were arrested because of the use of knives in a skirmish with Turks, an incident which resulted from the mad act of a Turkish criminal who killed the Jewish girl.”
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