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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.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). Credit: Nate Gowdy Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

Which are the real racist states?

What sort of racism is it to be obsessed only with Israel, where minority populations are rising and protected, when in so many other nations minorities are systematically murdered, tortured and discriminated against?

August 2, 2023

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.

The alliance between Ankara and Hamas is alive and kicking

Turkey remains the main lifeline for the Palestinian terrorist organization.

January 16, 2023

Jewish cemetery desecration in Turkey. Source: antisemitism.org.il.

Turkey: Why are non-Muslim cemeteries attacked?

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

July 22, 2022

Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, March 10, 2022. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Turkey’s Jewish community lacks freedom of religion and belief

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

May 3, 2022

Grand National Assembly of Turkey Parliament members in June 2015. Credit: Yıldız Yazıcıoğlu via Wikimedia Commons.

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.

May 5, 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.

April 9, 2021

The “Struma” passenger streamer with 769 Jewish refugees on board. Credit: IDF Archives.

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.

March 8, 2021

A campaign poster in Istanbul's Taksim Square promoting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's reelection. It reads: “Istanbul is Ready, Target 2023.” Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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.

February 8, 2021

The front page of the Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan memorandum, presented to the British Parliament in December 1922, prior to it coming into force in 1923. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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.

July 6, 2020