Two Turks in Euro-Jewish Parliament

February 22 2012 18:47:34

Two Turks in Euro-Jewish Parliament

BRUSSELS - Anatolia News Agency

More than 400,000 Jewish people living in Europe have chosen their “deputies” by casting their votes via internet and two of these 120 deputies are from Turkey.

Two Turkish businessmen Cefi Kamhi and Vital Denis Ojalvo Öner were elected to the European Jewish Parliament in the online polls, in which 3,379 people from Turkey’s Jewish community participated. Vadim Rabinovich, the head of Ukrainian Jewish Congress, was
elected as co-chairmen of the Parliament.

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