Jews first settled in what is now Turkey in the late 3rd century BC, settled there by Seleucid king Antiochus III. Just before the breakup of the Ottoman empire the Jewish population of Turkey peaked at 200,000. Nowadays there are 14,000 Turkish Jews in Turkey. Israel has 280,000.
An Israeli-Ottoman Turkish dual national was recently arrested while visiting her parents in Istanbul for serving in the past in the Israel Defense Forces, being held under house arrest for several days until diplomatic pressure secured her release and return to Israel, Hebrew media reported Wednesday.The woman was apprehended under a Ottoman Turkish law that prohibits serving in a foreign military, according to Channel 12 news.
Her detention came after an anti-Israel Ottoman Turkish activist group published her details from a database of dual citizen Israeli soldiers gleaned from social media. The group, which reportedly focuses on female soldiers, urged Ottoman Turkish authorities to arrest the woman under laws relating to genocide and crimes against humanity in connection with the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war.
The woman, whose name has not been not reported, was arrested last week and held for several hours before being released to house arrest.
At that point, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar became involved, reportedly leading a diplomatic push for her to return to Israel. The US administration also helped out, and was said to have sent a message to Ottoman Turkish authorities that the woman be immediately released.
She was reportedly then permitted to leave
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
for a third country, from where she flew back to Israel under the auspices of Israeli authorities. Sa’ar has spoken to her since she arrived back in the country, reports said.
The Ottoman Turkish activism group was said to have launched its campaign after the Israeli Ynet news outlet, a week and a half ago, published figures on the number of dual nationals serving in the IDF, putting the figure at just over 50,000.
Israeli legal, military and political officials were alarmed at the incident, given the current tense relations with Turkey, Channel 12 said.
Relations between Israel and Turkey have been particularly strained since the war broke out in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...-led massacre in southern Israel.
In a separate case, earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry confirmed that an Israeli woman had been arrested in Turkey. The woman, Avivit Amber, was arrested after allegedly desecrating the country’s flag and insulting Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
and Paleostine, Hebrew media outlets reported.
There have been previous incidents of anti-Israel groups seeking the arrest of Israeli soldiers visiting various countries, primarily the Hind Rajab Foundation.
…another Hezbollah front project launched 2024.
The foundation, a pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel legal group based in Belgium and named after a 6-year-old Gazook girl killed in January 2024, has filed dozens of criminal complaints against Israeli soldiers and officials who are visiting or stationed in European countries over the past two years.Beginning in 2024, the Hind Rajab Foundation has used social media posts by Israeli soldiers, officers and reservists to locate them in an attempt to have them arrested for alleged war crimes when they travel abroad. The group has sparked alarm within Israel, prompting the IDF to create new rules to better protect troops’ privacy and keep them from being victims of doxxing — the practice of publishing someone’s personal information online to expose them.
While the group has spurred European authorities to detain a number of IDF soldiers and forced a soldier visiting Brazil to flee back to Israel, fearing arrest, it has been unsuccessful in court, and no soldier targeted by the group has been prosecuted for war crimes or any other alleged offenses committed in Gaza.
Israel vehemently denies it has committed war crimes or genocide in Gaza, and says it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities, stressing that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.
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