Amberin Zaman

On June 6th, a premature report of a big Turkish invasion of northern Iraq rocked markets. Certainly thousands of Turkish troops, backed by tanks and artillery, have massed for a possible offensive against Kurdish PKK rebels in Iraq.

A million bombs cannot drive us Jews out of here, said Josef Habib Gerez, a 77-year-old painter in Istanbuls Galata neighborhood, home to Neve Shalom, the citys largest synagogue.