Turkey\u2019s Foreign Ministry recommended a Jewish Turk represent the country at the Eurovision song contest, Haberturk newspaper reported, without saying how it got the information.<\/p>\n
The ministry sent a letter to state television channel TRT on Jan. 3 recommending that pop singer Can Bonomo represent Turkey at the yearly event, Haberturk reported. The move was intended as an opening to Jews amid the worst period in Turkish- Israeli relations in the countries\u2019 histories, the Istanbul- based newspaper said. Bonomo was announced as Turkey\u2019s representative for the contest by TRT on Jan. 6, it said.<\/p>\n
Turkey will also be the first Muslim country to air a documentary about the Holocaust as part of the same cultural opening toward Jews, Haberturk reported. French director Claude Lanzmann\u2019s 9.5-hour documentary \u201cShoah\u201d began airing with Turkish subtitles on TRT on Jan. 26 and will continue in episodes to be aired each Thursday, it said.<\/p>\n
To contact the reporter on this story: Benjamin Harvey in Istanbul at bharvey11@bloomberg.net<\/p>\n
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Gavin Serkin at gserkin@bloomberg.net<\/p>\n
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