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The renowned pianist Renan Koen will perform the ´Hymns from Auschwitz´ Concert created by Koen herself at the Carnegie Hall in New York on April 20th.

Renan Koen met with music lovers at the Turkish House (Turkevi Center) in New York.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan conveyed his best wishes in the message he shared for the Passover (Pesach) Festival.

The researcher and writer Hanri Benazus´s name is given to a street in Izmir.

The ´Order of the Star of Italy (Ordine della Stella d´Italia)´, awarded by the Italian President, was presented to Rafael Rıfat Behar, Head of the Italian Jewish Community in Turkey, at the Venetian Palace in the Istanbul Italian Consulate on the evening of April 3rd.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during his phone call to Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Friday, condemned the recent terror attacks aimed at Israeli civilians.

The Mayor of Edirne, Recep Gürkan, who has visited Israel together with a committee upon an invitation from the ´Union of the Jews of Turkey in Israel (IYT - Itahdut Yotsei Turkia), signed a Friendship and Partnership Agreement with the Mayor of Bat Yam, Tzvika Brot.

The 530th anniversary of the Sephardic Jews´ arrival in the Ottoman lands was celebrated on the dates March 28-30, with arts and cultural activities organized in Madrid, Spain.

The 17th of the Kadir Has Awards, rewarded every year by the Kadir Has University to the valuable scientists of our country who have accomplished sign...

The traditional International Ladino Day (Dia Internasional Del Ladino / Judeo-Espanyol Estambol) was organized online again on March 20th, Sunday due to the pandemic. There was great participation in the event, from Turkey and many countries of the world, via Zoom and the live stream via the Facebook account of the Sephardic Cultural Research Center.

A panel on fighting racism and discrimination took place in the framework of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum which was held in Antalya, Turkey on March 11-13, 2022.

The war environment in the north of our country, causing the deaths of hundreds of soldiers and civilians, especially children, besides a lot of finan...

US Ambassador to Turkey, Jeffry L. Flake, paid a courtesy visit to the Chief Rabbi of Turkish Jews Rabbi Isak Haleva on Thursday, March 3rd.

This year, the Vehbi Koç Award which is given every year since 2002 in the fields of education, health, and culture respectively, is presented to the Distinguished Professor Dr. Ivet Bahar for her computational molecular and systems biology studies she has pioneered.

768 people who had lost their lives on the Struma ship on February 24, 1942, were commemorated on Thursday, February 24th, on the 80th anniversary of the disaster, with a ceremony organized on the coast of Sarayburnu, Istanbul.

Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Tanju Bilgiç made a statement before the commemoration ceremony to be held on the anniversary of the Struma Disaster.

The Struma, which sailed from Constanza in Romania on December 12th, 1941, with 769 Jewish immigrants running away from the Nazis and 10 crew members, was heading for Palestine, today´s Israel.

The first Kosher food vending machine, under the supervision of the Chief Rabbinate of Turkey, at Istanbul Airport, has been opened.

Irvin Mandel, the artist of Şalom Newspaper´s ´Mozotros´ corner, and who has been drawing cartoons for the Şalom Magazine every month, is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the ´Mozotros Family [Mozotros Ailesi] Comic-Strip´ which he had started in 1992, with a new album and a special exhibition at the Schneidertempel Arts Center.

A first was lived in Edirne on January 22nd. The memories of approximately twenty thousand Jews, who had lived in Edirne a century ago, came alive in the Foundation Building right behind the Grand Synagogue of Edirne, at an exquisite dining table where their special cuisine was introduced.