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•Relations between the Turks and the Sephardim Jews go back more than 500 years.

•We Sephardim, the descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, take such closeness for granted, because our ancestors have lived it and we are practicing it today in this country and around the world.

•The convergence of views between the Turkish nation and the Sephardim dates back to our settlement in the Ottoman Empire after our expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492.