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Jews in Turkey
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Jews in Turkey
The history of the
Jews
in
Turkey
(,
Turkish Jews
; , ) covers the 2,400 years that Jews have lived in what is now Turkey. There have been
Jewish communities in Asia Minor
since at least the 5th century BCE and many
Spanish and Portuguese Jews
expelled from Spain
were welcomed into the
Ottoman Empire
(including regions part of modern Turkey) in the late 15th century, 20 centuries later, forming the bulk of the
Ottoman Jews
.
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