Turkey’s Jewish community has condemned a popular female pop singer who posted a succession of anti-Semitic tweets referring to over Israel’s response to Hamas terror and rocket attacks.
In a statement on its website, the community called on the authorities to open an investigation on Yıldız Tilbe, a singer who has released a string of hateful messages on Twitter.
“We sadly condemn the racist and hateful words posted on the Yıldız Tilbe account,” the statement said. “We believe the judiciary officials will immediately start probing [the issue] as part of the hate crime articles in the Penal Code.”
On the night of July 10, Yıldız Tilbe, who has been making folk-influenced hit pop albums since the 1990s, praised Hitler in the tweets and said the end of the Jews was near.
“If God allows, it will be again Muslims who will bring the end of those Jews, it is near, near,” she tweeted on her official account @YildizzTilbee.
“They (Jews) are hostile to Allah and all prophets including their own prophet Moses.”
In another tweet she praised Hitler for the mass extermination of Jews in the Holocaust, writing “May God bless Hitler.”
While Tilbe is yet to issue an apology, she has received support from the mayor of Turkey’s capital city, Ankara, Melih Gökçek.
Gökçek, a senior member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), backed the singer’s Gaza tweets, retweeting most of her comments except the one on Hitler, calling them “full of intelligence.”
“I applaud you Yıldız Tilbe for the messages you deliver to many of your colleagues and especially to the Turkish nation,” he wrote.
“We sadly condemn the racist and hateful words posted on the Yıldız Tilbe account,” the statement said. “We believe the judiciary officials will immediately start probing [the issue] as part of the hate crime articles in the Penal Code.”
On the night of July 10, Yıldız Tilbe, who has been making folk-influenced hit pop albums since the 1990s, praised Hitler in the tweets and said the end of the Jews was near.
“If God allows, it will be again Muslims who will bring the end of those Jews, it is near, near,” she tweeted on her official account @YildizzTilbee.
“They (Jews) are hostile to Allah and all prophets including their own prophet Moses.”
In another tweet she praised Hitler for the mass extermination of Jews in the Holocaust, writing “May God bless Hitler.”
While Tilbe is yet to issue an apology, she has received support from the mayor of Turkey’s capital city, Ankara, Melih Gökçek.
Gökçek, a senior member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), backed the singer’s Gaza tweets, retweeting most of her comments except the one on Hitler, calling them “full of intelligence.”
“I applaud you Yıldız Tilbe for the messages you deliver to many of your colleagues and especially to the Turkish nation,” he wrote.
EJC
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