All Jews serving on the staff of the official Turkish News Agency “Anatolia” have been dismissed, it was announced here today.
The dismissal, which affects 26 Turkish Jews, apparently is a result of German pressure. This is obvious from the statement published here declaring that the Jewish members of the Turkish news agency are no longer “neutral” in their work.
Reports reaching here from the Turkish-Bulgarian frontier indicate that many Jews who are doing forced labor on the Bulgarian railway line leading to Turkey have made attempts to cross the border into Turkish territory, despite the fact that the border is carefully guarded on both sides. The number of Bulgarian Jews sent to forced labor on the railway is estimated here to be more than 6,000 despite the fact that the Bulgarian newspapers have reported the total number to be 3,300.
The Zagreb radio today announced the opening there of an anti-Jewish exhibition. The exhibit shows the “pernicious activities of the Jews and the way in which the Ustachi regime has solved the Jewish problem.”
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