AGAIN: TURKISH STUDENTS ARRESTED FOR NAZI SALUTES AT AUSCHWITZ

[Yervant1]

AGAIN: TURKISH STUDENTS ARRESTED FOR NAZI SALUTES AT AUSCHWITZ

Second incident in three months sees Turkish students arrested -
this time under infamous sign at the entrance to notorious Nazi camp.

Two Turkish tourists could face up to two years in prison for giving
Nazi salutes outside the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination
camp in Poland.

The Turkish nationals - who according to Turkey's Zaman news site
are a man and woman, both aged 22 - are apparently studying history
at Budapest university in neighboring Hungary.

They reportedly took pictures of each other making the offensive
gestures underneath the infamous "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes
you free") sign, which stands at the entrance to the former death
camp. The sign was one of the first - and for many, the last - things
which the camp's estimated 1.1 million victims, approximately 90%
of whom were Jewish, saw upon arrival, after being offloaded from
crowded cattle carts.

The pair will likely face charges for publicly promoting Nazi symbols
in public, which is a criminal offense in Poland.

Rising anti-Semitism

This is not the first time Turkish students have been arrested for
displays of fascism at the site of a former Polish concentration camp.

In a similar incident in October, two Turkish university students
were arrested at the site of the Majdanik death camp after giving
Nazi salutes to a group of Israeli students and shouting "Heil Hitler".

The two protested their innocence at the time, saying they had only
meant the gestures "as a joke".

This latest incident once more shines a spotlight on growing
anti-Semitism in Turkey, a phenomenon which has forced many young
Turkish Jews to leave the country and which many analysts blame on the
ruling Islamist AKP party, whose own leading officials have actively
engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric.

In July, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister accused "Diaspora Jewry"
of orchestrating the "Gezi Park" anti-government protests. Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a long history of anti-Semitic
and racist remarks, including collectively comparing Jews to "Nazis"
during his term as the mayor of Istanbul.

And in May, a shocking documentary revealed alarming levels of
anti-Semitism among Turkish immigrant youths in Holland, where growing
anti-Semitism has been blamed largely on the country's growing Muslim
population.

Tags: Anti-Semitism, Poland, Turkey, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi salute,
Turkish students by Taboola

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/174965#.UqlQ5cWmLZU