Ottoman Salonika
major trend in Turkish historiography sees them. They were intolerant
in their own way. The Dönme were both an island unto themselves—
even divided further into three islets—and among others. Such a mode
of being served the Dönme well in late Ottoman Salonika. But racialized
nationalism and ethnicized religion in Greek Thessaloníki and republican
Turkish Istanbul would ensure that they and the ideas they promoted
would be no longer welcome in the nation-states that replaced the em-
pire, an ironic consequence of a revolution in which they had played a
considerable role.