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In Turkey, an Unnecessary Prosecution
Originally published under the title “Turkey’s Oppression Machine.”
Ishak Alaton (left), a 90-year-old Turkish Jewish industrialist, is being investigated on charges of “supporting terror” for providing financial and moral support to Fethullah Gulen (right), a U.S.-based political rival of Turkey’s president. |
It was 1942 when, one day, Hayim Alaton, a Jewish yarn importer in Istanbul, received two payment notices from the tax office: He was asked to pay 80,000 liras in total -- a fortune at that time. He ran to the tax office to object, but was told to pay the whole amount within 15 days. It was the infamous Wealth Tax, passed on Nov. 11, 1942 and it remained in effect for a year and a half until it was repealed on March 14, 1944.
The Wealth Tax exclusively targeted Turkey’s non-Muslims at a time when 300,000 Orthodox Greeks and 100,000 Jews were living in Istanbul (where total population was one million). The law stated that the homes and workplaces of those non-Muslims who could not afford the tax would be sequestered. Alaton was able to pay no more than 11,000 liras. That was the start of “black years,” as Alaton’s son, 15 years old at that time, would later recall.
Before long, the Alaton’s home and store were
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Erdogan’s Most Eminent Men: Turkey’s New Spymasters
As Turkey’s post-election dust is settling down, the international community has turned its attention to two key appointments announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who on May 28 won his 17th election victory in 21 years, and entered his third decade in power.
Turkey’s two key appointments are new foreign minister and former intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan; and the newly-appointed intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalın, also an Erdoğan confidant.
Both men have interesting and impressive careers. How both of them have become the only two people who make policy and share power with Erdoğan is illuminating, especially where their careers intersected under the president.
The Enigmatic Hakan Fidan
How both of them have become the only two people who make policy and share power with Erdoğan is illuminating, especially where their careers intersected under the president.
Fidan, born in Ankara in 1968, served the Turkish Army’s Land Forces Command as a non-commissioned officer. He worked at NATO’s Rapid Reaction Force in Germany. His thesis was titled, “A Comparison of the UK, US and Turkish Intelligence Agencies.” After he abruptly quit his army career in 2001, he worked at the Australian Embassy in Ankara a
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