ABSTRACT
Jewish community leaders realize that they head a small, vulnerable group, one which lives in a country where such opinions are widely accepted, where the very existence of antisemitism is not acknowledged, much less viewed as a problem requiring a solution, and which is devoid of the support of either local or international civil society organizations. In broad terms, the history of the Turkish Republic can be divided into the “Single Party” and “Multi-Party” periods, with each witnessing different manifestations of anti-semitic sentiment and ideology. Antisemitism is a frequent feature on Turkish social media outlets and translator platforms, and it becomes particularly widespread and vehement when Turkish-Israel relations are tense or during Israeli military operations against Palestinians. Such antisemitism tends to manifest itself in declarations of support for Hitler, claims that the Holocaust is a hoax or that the number of victims is greatly exaggerated.
