Turks marked a year since the Istanbul synagogue bombings. “Our citizens stood firm on that day and stand firm today in the wake of an attack on the Turkish republic’s secular state. Terrorism will never achieve its aim,” city official Kamil Basar told Jews and Muslims gathered Monday at Neve Shalom, one of two Istanbul synagogues targeted by suicide car bombers on Nov. 15, 2003.
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