Turkey’s Jewish community marks an initial return to normalcy as synagogues re-open with new measures
the Jewish community’s newspaper in Turkey, only people who make early reservations for prayers will be allowed in with a total of 15 men and 5 women per synagogue. The numbers could increase in time keeping in view guidelines set out by Turkey’s Science Committee.
In January this year, Erdogan hosted Isak Haleva, Turkey’s Chief Rabbi, in the Presidential Complex in Ankara. After the meeting, the Turkish Jewish community issued a message from its official social media account “thanking” Erdogan for the visit to the Presidential Complex. or approximately $1 million, which was funded by the Turkish government and overseen by the country’s General Directorate of Foundations.
Four decades later, the first Jewish wedding was held in the Grand Synagogue of Edirne in late May 2016 after its reconstruction was finished in 2015 thanks to the Turkish government. In the 20th century, much of the city’s Jewish population left Edirne after several political incidents in the Republican period.
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