Rabbi Chaim Palachi, chief rabbi of Izmir, ruled that honey is not kosher and therefore cannot be used for the dipping of apples. Turkey is a huge producer of honey by its native Caucasian Honey Bee population, but there was a major colony collapse in 2017, wiping out a large portion of the bee community. One of the earliest known Jewish communities in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) was in the village of Bursa. Ever since, the community removed honey from their Rosh Hashanah celebrations. Hürrem Sultan (known in English as Queen Hürrem) instituted a pogrom in the Jewish community of Constantinople in the mid-1600’s.