Notes to Pages 25–33 Chapter 1
- Yıldız Sertel, Annem, 66.
- Ibid., 67.
- Ibid., 85.
- Mehmet Zekeriya Sertel, Hatırladıklarım ( 1906 – 1960 ) (Istanbul: Yaylacık
Matbaası, 1968 ), 54. - Ibid., 88.
- Ibid., 90.
- Yıldız Sertel, Annem, 90.
- Mehmet Ö. Alkan, İmparatorluk’tan Cumhuriyet’e Selânik’ten İstanbul’a
Terakki Vakfı ve Terakki Okulları, 1877 – 2000 (Istanbul: Terraki Vakfı, 2003 ), 48. - Nissimi, Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis, 11.
- Ibid., 13.
- Engseng Ho, The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the In-
dian Ocean (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 ), 140. - Ibid., 140 – 41.
- Ibid., 141.
- Ibid., 197 – 99.
- Esra Özyürek, “Introduction: The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey,”
in The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey, ed. id. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Uni-
versity Press, 2007 ), 1 – 15. - A Kapancı descendant and others today are using genealogies to stake
their claims to the disposal of a valuable parcel of land centrally located in Thes-
saloníki. Greek lawyers and judges are being asked to validate and verify the
religiously based genealogical claims of thirty-seven descendants of an Ottoman
imperial group. Millions of dollars are at stake, and descendants of Kapancı in
Turkey and France are being traced. Interview, summer 2006. - The document from 1862 —BOA, A.MKT.UM 572 / 1 —is cited in the In-
troduction, n. 54 , above. The 1891 document is BOA, Meclisi Vükela Mazbatası
68 / 44 , discussed in Selim Deringil, The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the
Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876 – 1909 (London: I. B. Tauris,
1999 ), 81. - Istoria tēs epicheirēmatikotētas stē Thessalonikē, ed. Efrosini Roupa and Evan-
gelos Chekimoglou, vol. 3 : ē epicheirēmatikotēta stēn periodo 1900 – 1940 (Thessa-
loníki: Politistikē Etaireia Epicheirēmatiōn Boreiou Ellados, 2005 ), 280 – 83. - Interview, summer 2006.
- Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts, 285.
- Arazi ve Emlaki Esasi Defteri [ 1906 Register of Lands and Properties], His-
torical Archive of Macedonia, Thessaloníki, 1 : 162 , 2 : 17 – 20. - Basilēs Dēmētriadēs, Topographia tēs Thessalonikēs kata tēn epochē tēs