00:00Hi, how are you? Excuse me.
00:01Hi.
00:01Where are you from?
00:02Turkey.
00:03You're from Turkey and you live in Israel?
00:04Yes.
00:05Are you Muslim?
00:06Yes.
00:06You are a Muslim Turkish woman living in Israel?
00:09Yes.
00:09I was here on October 7th.
00:11And also before the October 7th, I met with Israelis.
00:15I saw that everything is actually quite different than what I've been told.
00:19And you're non-Jewish and you fight against anti-Semitism?
00:21Yes.
00:22You consider yourself a Zionist?
00:23Yes, of course.
00:24You are a Muslim Turkish woman who is a Zionist?
00:27Yes.
00:28Do people in Turkey like Israel?
00:30Right now, no, unfortunately.
00:32Why not?
00:33Because of all the extreme Islamist propaganda going on in my country.
00:38People say that Israel is doing a genocide against Palestinians.
00:41But as a Muslim woman, do you feel safe in Israel?
00:44Yes, I feel safer than I was in Europe.
00:48Israel is the only country that has democracy in the Middle East.
00:51That's true.
00:52It's actually shocking because I think Israel is the only country in the Middle East
00:55where you can have a gay pride flag in a shop.
00:57Yes, and it was more shocking to me.
01:01I live in Jerusalem and last year we had a gay pride in Jerusalem.
01:05All the soldiers and police officers, they close all the city for the gay pride.
01:10For me, it's crazy that there are people that support Palestine that are gay,
01:14but they don't know you can't be gay in Palestine.
01:15You can only be gay in Israel in the Middle East.
01:17That's the only country where you can feel safe as a gay person in the Middle East.
01:21Yes, this is one of the things they don't know.
01:23Nice to meet you too.
