Turkish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust: Ankara's policy toward the Jews, 1933-1945

Explores Turkey’s response and treatment of its Jewish population from 1933 to 1945. An analysis of press coverage from political circles at the time highlights that little attention was given to the genocide against the backdrop of the developments of the war, which was primarily a consequence of Turkey’s nationalistic domestic political agenda at the time. Although the majority of Turkey’s political class rejected the Nazi’s anti-Semitism, Jews were subjected to forceful rigid nationalism and assimilation policies including forced labour and the “wealth tax”.