Two Turkish businessmen were victims of an anti-Semitic attack at a restaurant in northwest Turkey.The details of the attack, which were first published by the Algemeiner and Arutz-7 websites on Monday, based on an email from the victims, were confirmed to JTA by staff at Salom, a Jewish community newspaper in Turkey.The two men were visiting clients in Turkey’s Babaeski region and stopped at a fish restaurant for lunch. The owner of the restaurant reportedly realized that they were Jewish and began shouting anti-Semitic epithets and said that he would not serve the men, according to reports.
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