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Timaş, 2002 ), 10. After serving part of his sentence, Üzmez eventually earned
a law degree and worked for several government ministries in the 1970 s and
1980 s. He is currently a writer for the Islamist newspapers Akit and Vakit. On
his book’s jacket, the former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan praises him for
being “like a stone crusher smashing into powder every stone appearing as an
obstacle in the path of national and spiritual issues.”
9. Yalman, Turkey in My Time, 252 – 23. Given this charge, it is ironic that
Üzmez himself was arrested in December 2008 for paying a mother to have
sexual relations with her fourteen-year-old daughter.
10. Ibid., 159 , 252 , 261.
11. Karaca, Türk basınında kalem kavgaları, 224 – 25.
12. See Jacob Landau, Tekinalp: Turkish Patriot, 1883 – 1961 (Istanbul: Ned-
erlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 1984 ). Yalman passed
away in 1973. The Yalman family tomb in the Muslim cemetery in Feriköy is
plain, without ornamentation, or anything Islamic, a very tall and wide, book-
shaped white marble block, with only “Yalman Family” and a dozen names of
family members inscribed on it. Another prominent journalist of Dönme origin,
Abdi İpekçi (b. 1929 ), was not so lucky. He was assassinated in 1979 by Mehmet
Ali Agˇca, who would later attempt to kill Pope John Paul II.
13. See Nissimi, Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis, 18 – 21.
14. Wachtel, Foi du souvenir, 330 – 31.
15. Sakladım söylemedim / Derdim gizli uyuttum.
16. Valensi, “Conversion, intégration, exclusion,” 182.