Amazing that you would think that the Turkish government would went to invite a group of people that their own countries wanted to get rid of!
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April 10, 1893
The Turkish Government claims the right of discriminating against what it regards as an objectionable class—in this case, the Jews—the same, they say, as the United States discriminates against the Chinese, and the fact that a Jew belongs to this or that nation does not remove him, in their estimation, from the class to which objection is specially made.
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