An unprecedented incident in the Bursa City Magistrate's Court presented to the public the position of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his staff regarding the Jews, a recent DW news agency in Turkey reported.
A Turkish citizen named Yuxel Auston, who called the president "Jewish," was fined 7,000 Turkish pounds for a section of the law concerning "damage to the president's good name."
In fact, the sentence Auston chose to say about Erdogan is: "Taipei is a Jew who claims to be a Muslim."
Following this, legal advice from the Turkish President's Office began to address the issue, and Erdogan's lawyer, Hussein Aidin, claimed that the nickname "Jew" was intended, he said, to "harm and harm the honor, integrity and reputation" of the Turkish president.
In contrast to the incredibly lengthy legal proceedings against political prisoners like Osman Kabala, in the case of Auston - the sentence was received within about an hour from the date the post was posted on Facebook.
The legal proceedings against Auston even illustrate the lack of independence of the legal professional echelon in Turkey.
The General Prosecution on the stock exchange filed the case against the defendant in court only after approval by the Turkish Ministry of Justice which was completely and unsurprisingly aligned with the Office of the President.
Rather, a letter sent on March 25 this year to the head of the Justice and Legislation Department at the President's Office, Haki Susmaz, to the court speaks for itself. "You must advance this case without delay," he wrote. The president will intervene in the issue. "
The hearing in the Auston case took place yesterday.
"Jews are honored citizens of our country," said defendant's attorney, Bran Gonesh.
"It is not a crime to call a person 'gypsy' or 'Jewish'."
At the end of the hearing, the court initially sentenced him to ten months and another 20 days in prison, but eventually the sentence was commuted to a fine of seven thousand Turkish pounds.
The Jewish community in Turkey is considered one of the most glorious in the world, but from year to year it is shrinking.
Today it is much smaller than that of Iran, for example.
The reasons for this are many, including various organizations and media outlets under the guise of "pro-Palestine" and "anti-Israel" that encourage anti-Semitism in the country.
