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

 Index

alms, 12
Altınay, Ahmet Refik, 136
antisemitism, 102 – 3 , 219 – 20 , 228 – 29 ,
246 , 254 – 58 , 259 – 60
Arazi ve Emlaki Esasi Defteri, xiv
Argiropoulos, Periklis, 114
Arı, Kemal, 156
Arigoni, Pierro, 36
Aristotle University, 219 , 220
Armenians: Atatürk denies rights of, 188 ;
deportation of, 144 , 146 , 147 , 228 ,
295 n 37 ; Dönme deportees contrasted
with, 147 – 48 ; false military call-ups
for, 256 – 57 ; Hemshin, 18 ; parasitism
attributed to, 161 ; wealth tax assessed
on, 231 , 232 – 33 ; Yalman on, 236
Asad, Talal, 20
Ashura, see Aşure
Asıf Efendi, 206
Asır (newspaper), 54 , 103 , 106 – 7 , 221
Aşure, 76 – 77
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal: accused of
being “secret Jew,” ix, 110 , 265 n 4 ;
on childhood in Salonika, 236 ;
Committee of Union and Progress
leaders executed by, 185 , 227 ; death
of, 177 , 236 – 37 ; on dispute between
Ta n and Cumhuriyet, 223 ; downplays
his connections to Committee
of Union and Progress, 185 – 86 ;
economic nationalism of, 188 ; family
moves to Istanbul, 120 ; on fiftieth
anniversary of Feyziye school,
194 ; Freemasonry and Sufi orders
suppressed by, 186 ; mausoleum
of, 245 ; Mehmet Cavid and, 99 ,
148 ; Osman Tevfik as calligraphy
teacher of, 53 ; Ottoman Freedom
Society founded by, 99 , 143 ; radical
secularism and nationalism of, 243 ;
Rüştü meets with, 158 ; at Şemsi
Efendi’s school, 44 – 45 , 63 , 64 ,
194 , 210 , 243 ; struggles against the
traditional, 61 ; Yalman’s relations
with, 120 , 158 , 225 , 236

Atencio, Tomas, 256

atheism, 102 , 103 – 5 , 106 , 123 , 135 , 209

Atilhan, Cevat Rıfat, 255

Atiyye Zeki, 200

Atsız, Nihal, 255

Avdeti, 12 , 260

Aydemir, Şevket Süreyya, 233

Bahaettin Şakir, 109 , 161 , 297 n 10

Bahçe (periodical), 60 , 97

Balcı, Mehmet, 191

Balcı family, 113 , 152 , 191 , 194 , 204 , 205

Bali, Rıfat, 233

Balkan Wars, 135 – 36 , 146

Barker, Benjamin, 12 , 270 n 58

beauty contests, 260

Becerano, Haim, 164 , 297 n 90

Bektaşi Sufism: affiliated with

Freemasons, 93 ; in Constitutional

Revolution of 1908 , 92 – 93 ; on

control of hands, tongue, and loins,

210 ; Karakaş Dönme linked to, 9 , 10 ,

17 , 33 – 34 , 210 ; on light emanating

from God, 58 – 59 ; suppression

of, 34 , 93 ; on transmigration and

reincarnation, 5

Benaroya, Avram, 90 , 108 , 112 , 291 n 5

Benayahu, Meir, 4 , 17

Ben-Tzevi, Yitzhak, 7 , 180 , 301 n 68

Bessemer, Paul, 257 , 299 n 39

Bezmen, Refik, 232

Bolshevik Revolution, 108 – 9 , 110

Brunhes, Jean, 167

Brunner, Alois, 246

Bülbüldere Cemetery (Istanbul), 185 ,

197 – 208 , 261 – 62

burial: Dönme practices, 43 , 78 , 125 ,

134. See also cemeteries

Bursalı Mehmet Tahir, 99

Büyük Dogˇu (newspaper), 260

Çagˇaptay, Soner, 309 n 128

Campbell riot ( 1931 ), 220

Carasso, Emmanuel, 56 , 94 , 98 , 108 ,

112 , 287 n 75