Despite the fact that he has been arrested several times and had newspapers closed under him because of his anti-Semitic and ultranationalist writings. Turkey’s leading anti-Semite, Djevat Rifat Atilhan, has launched a new campaign of slander against the Jews.
Atilhan just published a book entitled “Islands and the Sons of Israel,” and began writing articles for Hur Adam, a small reactionary and racist weekly. In his first article for Hur Adam, Atilhan has called on “all true Moslems” to form a front against the Jews and other enemies of Turkey.” He attacked as “insolence” a suggestion by a local Jewish newspaper that mention of a Turkish citizen’s religion be omitted from his identity card.
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