 On 8 January the Islamist daily Yeni Şafak, published an article which alleged that the Israeli Government was attempting to set up farms in southeastern Turkey, and populate them with Russian and Ethiopian Jews whose integration into Israel they found difficult.In 2005, it was reported by journalists such as Ayhan Bilgin in "Vakit", that the Mossad and Israel were responsible for planting mines which killed Turkish soldiers in southeast Turkey.Such claims have created a very negative atmosphere against Israelis and Turkish Jews.