Ali Şahin

The governor accused of inciting hatred toward Turkey’s Jewish community has offered an “apology” to the country’s Chief Rabbi, claiming that his proposal to turn a synagogue into a museum as a reprisal for Israel’s policies over Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque “had no connection” to the Turkish Jewish community.

The gunfight that took place in the western Turkish province of Edirne, which claimed the life of a policeman, was probably an extension of clashes between Russian, Georgian and Azeri mafias, Governor Dursun Ali Şahin has said.