Spain’s King Ends Talks With Jews in Turkey
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ISTANBUL, Turkey — Spanish King Juan Carlos ended a three-day state visit to Turkey Friday after holding a historic meeting with leaders of a Jewish community whose ancestors were expelled from Spain 500 years ago.
The meeting was the first between a Spanish monarch and Turkey’s Sephardic Jews since Fernando and Isabel, the Catholic king and queen of Spain, expelled the Jews in 1492.
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