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Friday, September 12, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Istanbul

Continued from Page 1

In Washington, State De-
partment spokesman Bruce
Ammerman declared, "We
condemn this cowardly at-
tack and deeply deplore the
terrible loss of life which
resulted from it."
Israeli sources saw a corn-
mon anti-Israel thread link-
ing the Istanbul outrage with
the attempted hijacking the
previous day of a Pan Ameri-
can 747 jet at Karachi airport
which resulted in the death of
16 passengers and more than
100 injured. The hijackers,
they noted, demanded to be
flown to Cyprus to effect the
release of three Palestinian
terrorists imprisoned • there
for the murder of three Is-
raelis on a yacht in Larnaca
a year *ago.
The Neve Shalom syna-
gogue, an old Sephardic con-
gregation in the city's-
Beyoglu quarter, had been
closed for some time for
repairs. The Saturday morn-
. ing services marked its re-
, opening. The two assailants
reportedly gained entrance by
, posing as television camera-
- men assigned to cover the
event for Israel television.
One of them spoke Hebrew to
a guard.
According to eyewitness ac-
counts, once inside they they
barred the heavy gates and
opened fire on the congre-
gants with machineguns and
hurled grenades. Rafi Saul,
17, who had been worship-
ping with his father, told
reporters later that after gun-
ning down most of the 30 peo-
ple in the synagogue, the at-
tackers poured gasoline over
the dead and dying and set
them afire. The terrorists
then blew themselves up with
grenades.
Saul said he escaped by
pretending to be dead. His
father was killed by gunfire.
Four women in the women's
gallery were injured by flying
splinters.
Radio Istanbul quoted eye-
witnesses as saying dozens of
people, haggard, and in shock
and bleeding, ran into the
street calling for help. Am-
bulances and police cars
reached the area 10 minutes
after the alarm was wounded.
Turkish officials said this was
because the narrow lanes of
the commercial quarter were
crowded with pushcarts and
shoppers at the time.
The death toll would have
been much higher if a Bar
Mitzvah planned for Satur-
day had not been postponed
at the last minute.
The victims will be buried
at a collective funeral. Israel's
Minister of Religious Affairs,
Yosef Burg, will represent his
country. The Governor of
Istanbul province, Navzat
Ayaz, said after a meeting
with Turkey's Chief Rabbi,
David Asseo, that the ser-

vices would be held in the
Neve Shalom Synagogue.
According to Turkish of-
ficials, the killers shouted
"Jihad" (holy war) as they
opened fire on the worship-
pers. The officials suggested
that the terror squad might
have belonged to the Islamic
Jihad, a gang controlled by
the extremist Lebanese
Shiites linked to the pro-
Iranian Hezbollah (Army of-
God) which has been respon-
sible for murderous attacks in
Lebanon over the past two
years.
A Shiite group in Beirut,
calling itself the "Islamic -
Revenge" claimed responsi-
bility for the synagogue at-
tack in revenge for Israeli at-
tacks on Lebanese villages.
Another unknown group call-
ing itself the: "Palestine
Revenge Organization" also
claimed responsibility.
But Israelf sources pointed
to Abu Nierai who is backed
by Syria and Libya. During -
the past six years his terror
squads carried out fatal at-
tacks on the Rue Copernic
synagogue in Paris, the main
synagogue in Rome and syna-
gogues in Vienna and Ant-
werp. They also attacked a
Jewish restaurant in Paris
and a movie house there dur-
ing a Jewish film festival.
Reports from Istanbul said
seven rabbis were among the
victims, as well as two can-
tors and three tourists from
Iran. Another report named'
an Israeli rabbi, Raphael
Nesin, as a victim. But Henry
Siegman, executive director
of the American Jewish Con-
gress who was recently in
Thrkey, said on a television in-
terview that he had ascertain
ed by telephone from Istan-
bul that no Israeli rabbi was .
killed.
The attack shocked Turkish
officials. The first to reach the
scene, the Deputy Governor
of Istanbul, Hassan All Ozer
called the spectacle "awful."
Case-hardened policemen
were sickened by the sight of
two dozen dead and wounded,
many wrapped in prayer
shawls, lying in inch-deep
pools of blood.
Turkish Prime Ministe
Thrgut Ozal, who called his
Cabinet into special session,
issued a statement in Ankara
deploring "this heinous act in
a place of worship." He said
"All citizens of Turkey are
under the protection of th
State, irrespective of their
religion, language or race." He
added, "We share as a nation
the grief and pain of all the
families of our fellow citizens
who have died because of this
odious assault and express
our deepest sympathy to
them."
In the aftermath of the at-
tack, police swarmed through
the streets of Istanbul con-
,