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Uzay Bulut

Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara. She is currently a research student at the MA Woodman-Scheller Israel Studies International Program of the Ben-Gurion University in Israel.

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The alliance between Ankara and Hamas is alive and kicking

Uzay BulutJanuary 16, 2023

Turkey remains the main lifeline for the Palestinian terrorist organization.

Paramedics and police at the scene of a suicide bombing that killed 19 and wounded 74 on a bus in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, June 18, 2002. Photo by Flash90.

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Uzay BulutJuly 22, 2022

Turkey: Why are non-Muslim cemeteries attacked?

Attacks against the cemeteries of Christians, Jews and Yazidis have a long history in the country.

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Uzay BulutMay 3, 2022

Turkey’s Jewish community lacks freedom of religion and belief

At the same time, anti-Semitic hate speech targeting Jews remains a serious problem.

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Uzay BulutMay 5, 2021

How Turkey and Israel treat minorities

The Turkish government has never accepted the right to self-rule of any indigenous non-Turkish community in Asia Minor. Compare that to the Jewish state.

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Uzay BulutApril 9, 2021

How Jews in Palestine were persecuted during the 1915 Armenian Genocide

Ottoman Turkish authorities aimed to Islamize the whole region by eliminating non-Muslim populations: Christians, Jews and Yezidis—groups that continue to be targeted in and outside of Turkey today.

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Uzay BulutMarch 8, 2021

Turkey: How nearly 800 Jewish refugees perished during the Holocaust

The country will not be considered truly civilized until it faces its crimes and secures justice for its victims.

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Uzay BulutFebruary 8, 2021

Turkey: Anti-Semitism was widespread in 2020

Many leading figures—from government authorities to political opposition and the media—spread Jew-hatred in a country that is a NATO member and a candidate for European Union membership.

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Uzay BulutJuly 6, 2020

Why does Black Lives Matter depict Zionism as a colonialist movement?

Zionists and Jewish citizens of Israel are not colonists, and this has nothing to do with their skin color. It has everything to do with the causes, roots and historical processes of Zionism.

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