The Dönme. Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
Istanbul conversion from an ethno-religious to a secular national identity in the first two decades of the Turkish nation-st ...
Almost from the moment of their arrival in Turkey as part of the popu- lation exchange, the Dönme were greeted with suspicio ...
Istanbul increasing horror of the receiving states, did not in any way resemble the local population, but were stained by th ...
Loyal Turks or Fake Muslims? sion about who belonged to the Turkish nation and the Muslim commu- nity. Two Dönme, Mehmet Kar ...
Istanbul was still embarrassed when people referred to him as a Jew.^6 Claiming to have spent his whole life among Turks, an ...
Loyal Turks or Fake Muslims? Rüştü continues by stating it was time for the Turkish Grand National Assembly to eliminate thi ...
Istanbul deceived the Turkish nation for three centuries by “not revealing the ex- tent to which we were separate and differ ...
Loyal Turks or Fake Muslims? a cancer or parasite. Rüştü uses the metaphor of comparing the Dönme to the filthiest animal im ...
Istanbul Rüştü develops the host and parasite motif: the Turks are the unwitting host to a dangerous parasite that can destr ...
Loyal Turks or Fake Muslims? group (Yakubi) had so mixed with Turks that there were only a hundred of them left. Rüştü tried ...
Istanbul exchange. Vakit wrote that the question emerged of whether the Dönme of Salonika should be sent to Turkey or not as ...
Loyal Turks or Fake Muslims? shortly after that they would not say to us, “No, we are not Jews”? Judaism hates the Dönme rel ...
Istanbul principle with the Dönme way of being: the importance of maintaining purity and distinction between insiders and ou ...
Loyal Turks or Fake Muslims? contemporary documents, one does not find any recognizable Dönme names.^31 There was firm oppos ...
Istanbul “communism” and property sharing, improper sexual behavior and moral laxity serving merely to illustrate how dishon ...
Loyal Turks or Fake Muslims? about, not actually witnessed, the custom. Rüştü was one of the former. He confirms the existen ...
Istanbul author labels “Salonikans.” It adopted a civic understanding of national identity, advocating an idea of the nation ...
Loyal Turks or Fake Muslims? Ottoman Empire remained the most “backward” and “primitive” because it did not unite its people ...
Istanbul Dönme.^46 What bothered him, and compelled him to write the series, was that, unlike those of other premodern “char ...
Loyal Turks or Fake Muslims? in Turkey, and no one is to be subject to persecution on account of behav- ing differently. He ...
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