The Dönme. Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

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 Notes to Pages 186–191



  1. Ibid., 6.

  2. Ibid.

  3. Çagˇlar Keyder, “The Consequences of the Exchange of Populations for
    Turkey,” in Crossing the Aegean, ed. Hirschon, 49.

  4. Ibid., 50.

  5. Yalman, Turkey in My Time, 87 , 110.

  6. See the discussion of Gramsci in Amanda Anderson, “Cosmopolitanism,
    Universalism, and the Divided Legacies of Modernity,” in Cosmopolitics: Think-
    ing and Feeling Beyond the Nation, ed. Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins (Min-
    neapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998 ), 270 – 71.

  7. Bruce Robbins, “Comparative Cosmopolitanisms,” ibid., 248.

  8. Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Atatürk’ün söylev ve demeçleri (Ankara:
    Atatürk Kültür Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, 1997 ), 2 : 130 , cited in Rıfat Bali,
    “The Politics of Turkification During the Single Party Period,” in Turkey Beyond
    Nationalism, ed. Kieser, 47.

  9. Ibid., 202 – 44 ; Alexandris, Greek Minority of Istanbul, 104.

  10. Keyder, “Setting,” 10.

  11. Interview, summer 2003.

  12. An unnamed Karakaş interviewee of Aslı Yurddaş (“Mr. B”)’s family
    moved to Teşvikiye in 1949. The Karakaş H. K’s grandfather ( 1914 – 70 ) arrived
    in Eminönü, Istanbul, from Salonika after the population exchange in the 1930 s.
    He settled his family in Nişantaşı in the following decade and had his son edu-
    cated at the Terakki and Feyziye schools in the 1950 s. Members of the family are
    all buried in the Karakaş section of Istanbul’s Bülbüldere Cemetery. Yurddaş,
    “Meşru vatandaşlık, gayri meşru kimlik?” 25 , 139.

  13. Almost all of a Karakaş interviewee’s male relatives, including his textile-
    factory-owning grandfather, born between the 1880 s and World War I in Sa-
    lonika, passed away in Istanbul from the 1930 s on. Thus one concludes that
    they were subject to the population exchange, or at least moved to Turkey after
    Greece took Salonika. Yet one male relative was born in Thessaloníki in 1914
    and died there a dozen years later, demonstrating that some Dönme, including
    children, managed to stay in the city a bit longer. Moreover, some of his female
    relatives were actually born in Istanbul between World War I and the population
    exchange. Thus his textile merchant family already had branches established in
    the Ottoman capital before the population exchange.

  14. Yurddaş, “Meşru vatandaşlık, gayri meşru kimlik?” 30.

  15. Interview, summer 2006.

  16. Interview, summer 2002.

  17. MMKTT, A 31331. As of 1915 , they specialized in forges, steam hammers,
    cigarette paper, iron cash boxes, and haberdashery in Thessaloníki. See Salonik:
    Topographisch-statistische Übersichten, 147 , 161 , and 183.

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