Gunmen attack building housing Israeli Consulate in Istanbul

Alisher Tursunov, 51, commonly known as Mubashshir Ahmad, was charged with inciting religious hatred, distribution of materials that threaten public order and illegal distribution of materials with religious content.

The suspect, reportedly a member of the ISIS terror group, was planning simultaneous attacks before being arrested in Istanbul.

“We are deeply saddened to have lost our esteemed leader, our Chief Rabbi Rav Isak Haleva,” the Turkish Jewish community said on X.

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya made the announcement in a social media post. He stressed that Turkish police do not “tolerate any terrorists.”

The ‘Sephardic Flavors and Aromas’ exhibition, dedicated to Sephardic cuisine and history, has been opened in the Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews in Istanbul, exploring the tantalizing culinary legacy of Sephardic culture through historical notes and gastronomic discoveries.

Turkish Jewish leaders say they are taking action after students at Istanbul’s Üsküdar American Academy reportedly performed the Nazi salute during a soccer game against Istanbul’s sole Jewish day school.

Five teenagers have been arrested in Turkey after the country’s largest Jewish cemetery was vandalized. The governor of Istanbul said that 81 headstones in Hasköy Cemetery were damaged.

Istanbul police have arrested 15 suspects connected to the Islamic State terror group, who were allegedly plotting to target synagogues and churches. 

The International Izmir Sephardic Culture Festival, which was organized first four years ago to promote the centuries-old culture of Sephardic Jews, is to kick off this year as well in Türkiye’s Izmir.

The victims of the attacks on two synagogues in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu and Şişli district in 2003 were remembered by Turkish citizens. The 2003 Istanbul bombings were a series of suicide attacks carried out with trucks fitted with bombs detonated at four different locations in the city.

Şalom, which had started its publication life on 1947, with the Ladino motto “A lo tuerto tuerto, a lo dereço dereço (roughly translated to; To the crooked crooked, to the true true), is celebrating its 75th birthday.

An old Jewish neighborhood in the western province of İzmir, where some nine synagogues exist, will turn into an open museum. According to an expert, the area was home to 30,000 Jewish citizens.