Greek neo-Nazi leader denies existence of gas chambers

“It is indeed a moving experience for me to address this august assembly in Kiev, in the land where my grandparents and many other relatives perished in 1941, all summarily executed by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and their indigenous collaborators.” Thus began the speech by Aladdin Project President Anne-Marie Revcolevschi in the Ukrainian Parliament during the closing session of an international conference organized by the Kiev Interfaith Forum and its president, Oleksandr Feldman, MP, on April 25 and 26.

Chief Rabbi Rene-Samuel Sirat, co-president of the Aladdin Project’s Interfaith Committee, met and held talks with a number of senior religious leaders, including the Ecumenical Patriarch His Holiness Bartholomew I, Istanbul Grand Mufti Dr. Rahmi Yaran, Grand Mufti emeritus Professor Mustafa Cagarci and Chief Rabbi of Turkey Isak Haleva, during his visit to Istanbul on April 24 and 25. The former Chief Rabbi of France briefed his eminent interlocutors on the new initiative of the Aladdin Project that aims to familiarize young theologians of Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths with the religion of the “other.”

Dozens of Turkish newspapers, television and radio stations as well as news websites reported extensively on the international conference that took place in Bahcesehir University on April 19. CNN Turk, mass-circulation dailies Milliyet, Vatan, Aksam and journals Gozlem and Salom were among them.