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Why Some "Turks" Are Less Equal
(Hurriyet-Turkey) Burak Bekdil - Press reports revealed that the prosecutor's office in Istanbul that had tried the Israeli soldiers involved in the Mavi Marmara incident had asked the intelligence services for a listing of Turkish Jews who traveled to Israel two weeks before and after the incident. The suspects were put under surveillance and a list was sent to the court. The Turkish state and most Turks have always indiscriminately discriminated against the "other," whether the other is "foreign" or not. Ishak Alaton, Turkey's best-known Jewish entrepreneur and a frequent target of anti-Semitic rants in the Islamic media, told author Jenny White "that the man you interviewed today, who has reached 82-years-old, has never been given the feeling by this nation that I am part of it."