President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent a message of support to Turkey's Jewish community as they celebrated New Year Monday.
"We - the members of a tradition that sees differences as richness, gives great importance to fundamental human rights, offers opportunity to all ethnic and religious groups to live together in peace for centuries - are proud that all our citizens have the ability to freely live by their culture, religion and traditions," he said in a statement.
Jews around the world celebrated the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah, Monday.
Erdogan said Turkey's celebrations were "among the richness of this region".
He also condemned Israel over the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in east Jerusalem.