A US TV team is tracing the history of Jews who settled in Turkey at the invitation of Sultan Bayezid II following the expulsion of Jews from Spain
The filming crew of"Air Land & Sea", a global travel series about Jewish communities, have been documenting the story of Jews in Turkey from the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 to the present.
The team of the Jewish Life Television channel, invited by the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry, is in Turkey’s northwestern province of Edirne, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire after filming in Turkey’s largest city Istanbul. “It just goes to show you how Turkey continues to be a tolerant country that welcomes people of all faiths, whether you're Muslim, whether you're Christian, whether you're Jewish,” he added.
Following the filming in Edirne, they plan to visit Turkey’s Aegean province of Izmir, which “was also a great centre of Jewish thinking,” he said. “Sultan Bayezid II literally sent fleets of boats to the Iberian Peninsula to take hundreds of thousands of Jews to the Ottoman Empire because he saw the contributions that these Jews could make, and they did, and they did for 500 years,” he added.
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