Persecution: The Ottoman Empire

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What do you think it is like to be kicked out of a whole continent? To be persecuted for seemingly no reason besides for what you believe in. To have nowhere left to go because everywhere you looked, people like you were being killed. This is exactly what was happening to the Jewish population in the 1400s. There was one exception to all of the persecution, the Ottoman empire. The ottoman empire wanted Jews to settle in its land because of the economic growth it would bring to the empire.
All across eastern Europe Jews were being persecuted and expelled from their own countries. 280,000 jews were expelled from Spain. One of the reasons for the expulsion of Jews from Spain was the crusades. The crusades mostly attacked Muslims but technically …show more content…
Ottoman citizens did not like this plan and some Jews were murdered as a way to rebel. In response, the sultan issued a statement saying that, if people mistreated the jews in any way, they would be sentenced to death. This was unprecedented at the time to make a statement like this as a ruler of an empire ("Modern Jewish"). Jews were now getting special protections, this was happening nowhere else in the world at the time. Because of the special treatment, Jews all across the empire became very loyal and thankful for …show more content…
One group of jews offered to buy the empire out of debt in exchange for the land of Palestine but the Sultan refused. This delayed the process of trying to create a Jewish state. The jews then got blamed for trying to liquidize the empire. Eventually, after World War I, the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the remains of it became the country of turkey. Jews were blamed for the collapse of the empire and because of that, Jews were the victim of a lot of hate. The word “jew” in turkey became an insult. Technically the Turkish government supported jews like the Ottoman empire but now Jews were again the subject of attacks (Yapp). The government issued out statements condoning these attacks but did nothing else to stop them. In 1986 there was an attack on a Jewish synagogue where 22 people were murdered. In 2003, there was an attack at the same synagogue that killed even more people. Antisemitism in turkey continued to grow after the 2010 Gaza Flotilla. The Gaza Flotilla was an Israeli military operation where there was an attack on six civilian ships where nine activists were killed.
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