Notes to Pages 167–173 de la paix et de la guerre sur terre et sur mer (Paris: Alcan, 1921 ); Mihrab, Janu-
ary 15 , 1924 ; Sebîlürreşat 23 , no. 585 (January 24 , 1924 ): 203.
35. Gövsa, Sabatay Sevi, 5.
36. Sebîlürreşat 23 , no. 585 (January 24 , 1924 ): 204 – 5 ; and ibid., no. 586 : 220.
37. Robert Dankoff, “An Unpublished Account of mum söndürmek in the
Seyahatname of Evliya Chelebi,” in Bektachiyya: Etudes sur l’ordre mystique des
Bektachis et les groupes relevant de Hadji Bektach, ed. A. Popovic and G. Veinstein
(Istanbul: Isis, 1995 ), 69 – 73.
38. Garnett, Women of Turkey, 108.
39. Resimli Dünya, September 15 , 1925 , 4 – 6 ; October 15 , 2 – 4 ; November 15 ,
3 – 4. Quoted in Paul Bessemer, “Who Is a Crypto-Jew? A Historical Survey of
the Sabbatean Debate in Turkey,” Kabbalah 9 ( 2003 ): 109 - 52. Bessemer adds:
“the account fits a little too neatly with the journal’s standard fare of passionate
romances, true crime, and tales of degradation, heartbreak, and woe to render it
completely above suspicion.”
40. Resimli Dünya, November 15 , 1925 , translated into French in Galanté,
Nouveaux documents sur Sabbetaï Sevi, 50.
41. Akşam, May 4 , 1935 , trans. into French in Galanté, Nouveaux documents
sur Sabbetaï Sevi, 53.
42. For an example of the classic approach to this topic in the Islamic press,
see Yesevizade, “Dönmelerin müm söndü,” Sebil, June 18 , 1976. He says that
although it is rumored that Kızılbaş [Alevi] engage in the practice, no one from
the group has ever publicly admitted it. On the other hand, Jews [Dönme] (who
have a “perverted and exploiter mentality”) have admitted to the practice. What
frightened him was that the germs of these sick people, “pigs” who “spread sex-
ually perverted propaganda” such as beauty contests and pornographic films,
“would infect the entire society.”
43. Vakit, January 18 , 1924 , 1 – 2.
44. “Dönme meselesi: Selânikli genç bir Dönme imzasıyla aldıgˇımız son
derece mühim ve şayan-i dikkat bir mektup!” Resimli Dünya 15 , no. 3 (Novem-
ber 15 , 1925 ): 3 – 4.
45. See Erol Şadi Erdinç, “Ahmet Emin Yalman: Bir yaşam hikayesi,” and
“Ahmet Emin Yalman’ın anlattıgˇı dönemler,” in Ahmet Emin Yalman, Yakın
tarihte gördüklerim ve geçirdiklerim, ix–xxii.
46. Vatan, January 11 , 1924 , 1.
47. Vatan, January 15 , 1924 , 2.
48. Vatan, January 19 , 1924 , 2.
49. Interview, fall 2002.
50. Vatan, January 17 , 1924 , 2.
51. Vatan, January 22 , 1924 , 2.
52. Vatan, January 20 , 1924 , 2.