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Here it is. Despite the many pogroms and genocides, the Jews maintained a presence and kept coming back to their ancestral, spiritual, and cultural homeland. In this case it was the 1500's. It is the descendants of these people that rightfully live in today's Israel. 
"The sultan Bayezid sent a fleet for the Spanish Jews, and he ordered his subjects to accept the Jews. In 1497 the successive waves of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula arrived to the Ottoman Empire, this time they escaped Portugal. They became the Ottoman Empire citizens, in return they paid a tax and respected Islam as the state religion. Bayezid claimed that Isabella and Ferdinand’s decision weakened economically their country and reinforced his country.
How Spanish Jews found their second home in the Ottoman Empire?
Bayezid II issued the regulation including the threat of the death penalty for everyone who banned Jews’ access to the Ottoman Empire or who treated them badly. Jews from the Iberian Peninsula settled in Constantinople (today’s Istanbul), Adrianopole (today’s Edirne), Salonika, Jerusalem, Bursa, Damascus and Anatolian’s city Amasya. Jews came to the Ottoman Empire with their considerable wealth, and, as in the Iberian Peninsula, they dealt with finances and loans. Jews enjoyed the support from important people in the state and a large freedom. They constituted a privileged community as the trade with West European countries is concerned, because they had a capital, they knew languages and they could make their businesses freely behind the empire’s borders.
"The sultan Bayezid sent a fleet for the Spanish Jews, and he ordered his subjects to accept the Jews. In 1497 the successive waves of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula arrived to the Ottoman Empire, this time they escaped Portugal. They became the Ottoman Empire citizens, in return they paid a tax and respected Islam as the state religion. Bayezid claimed that Isabella and Ferdinand’s decision weakened economically their country and reinforced his country.
How Spanish Jews found their second home in the Ottoman Empire?
Bayezid II issued the regulation including the threat of the death penalty for everyone who banned Jews’ access to the Ottoman Empire or who treated them badly. Jews from the Iberian Peninsula settled in Constantinople (today’s Istanbul), Adrianopole (today’s Edirne), Salonika, Jerusalem, Bursa, Damascus and Anatolian’s city Amasya. Jews came to the Ottoman Empire with their considerable wealth, and, as in the Iberian Peninsula, they dealt with finances and loans. Jews enjoyed the support from important people in the state and a large freedom. They constituted a privileged community as the trade with West European countries is concerned, because they had a capital, they knew languages and they could make their businesses freely behind the empire’s borders.
