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

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Vahide Kara Ali, 200
Vakit (newspaper), 120 , 157 , 159 , 162 ,
163 – 64 , 165 , 167 , 221
Vallaux, Camille, 167
Vatan (newspaper), 169 – 70 , 178 – 80 ,
221 , 223 , 225 , 235 , 236 , 261
Vatandaş Türkçe Konuş! (Galanté), 222
Venizélos, Eleuthérios, 112 , 117 , 143 , 213
Véritas Obedience, 94 , 95 , 97 , 119
Volkan (periodical), 102 , 103 – 7 , 135 , 260
Volkan, Vamik, 64


Wachtel, Nathan, 68 , 261
wealth tax, xvii, 36 , 223 – 35 , 239 , 252 ,
256 , 258
White Tower (Thessaloníki), 246
wife-sharing, 167 – 69
Wisliceny, Dieter, 246
Wolfson, Elliot, 7
women: in Bülbüldere Cemetery,
Istanbul, 200 ; Christian influence
among Muslim, 135 ; Dönme
accused of corrupting Muslim, 124 ;
Dönmeler: Hunyos, Kavayeros, Sazan
on Dönme, 122 – 23 ; education for
Dönme girls, 48 , 52 , 63 , 277 n 33 ; in
genealogies, 28 ; Major Sadık defends
Dönme, 130 , 131 – 32 ; Muslim attacks
on secular, 103 ; secular attitude
among Dönme, 63 ; Shabbatai Tzevi
emancipates, 3 ; tombstone portraits
of, 201 – 3 ; veiling of, 100 , 131 – 32 ;
veiling of Yakubi, 12 – 13 ; in Yakubi
administration, 10
Workers’ Solidarity Federation, 90


Yakub Çelebi: death of, 8 ; in
establishment of Dönme belief and
practice, 6 ; Mustafa Çelebi opposes
leadership of, 8 ; in nucleus of
Believer community in Salonika, 5 ;
soul of Shabbatai Tzevi believed to
have transmigrated to, 5 , 8
Yakubi: administration of, 10 ; cemetery
in Istanbul of, 204 ; Dönmeler:


Hunyos, Kavayeros, Sazan on, 122 ,
123 ; expelled from Salonika, 148 ;
Hamdi Bey as leader of, 89 ; homes
of, 42 ; iron discipline of, 12 – 13 ;
neighborhoods in Salonika of, 34 – 35 ,
36 ; New Mosque, 34 , 39 , 39 – 41 , 89 ,
246 – 47 , 247 , 310 n 9 ; Rüştü on, 163 ;
Saadethane as place of worship of,
10 ; in splintering of Shabbatai Tzevi’s
followers, 8 ; Yalman on, 170 , 172 ,
173 , 174 , 176
Yalçin, Hüseyin Cahit, 238
Yalçın, Soner, ix
Yalman, Ahmet Emin: as agent for
American companies, 260 ; on
Ankara, 187 ; on Aşkale, 236 , 308 n 98 ;
asked to be interpreter for Turkish
delegation to Lausanne, 141 ; on
Atatürk’s education, 44 – 45 ; attacked
as secret Jew, 222 – 23 , 226 , 235 , 255 ;
autobiographies of, 235 – 36 ; banned
from journalism, 221 ; becomes
Turkish nationalist, 181 , 235 – 36 ;
benefits of strategy of, 183 ; death
of, 314 n 12 ; on Dönme contribution
to construction of Turkish nation
state, 100 ; on Dönme history,
xvii, 169 – 76 , 235 , 250 – 51 ; exiled to
British Malta, 221 ; false persona
adopted by, 182 ; family moves to
Istanbul, 120 ; at Feyziye school,
53 , 170 , 236 ; on Freemasons and
Constitutional Revolution of 1908 ,
100 ; on Gonca-i Edeb journal, 59 – 60 ;
Gövsa counters, xvii, 177 , 178 – 80 ; as
Istanbul University professor, 120 ; on
journalists in revolution of 1908 , 97 ;
Lazarus compared with, 181 – 82 ; on
modernity versus tradition, 62 – 63 ;
political principles of, 238 ; relations
with Atatürk, 120 , 158 , 225 , 236 ;
Rüştü compared with, 170 , 172 , 175 ,
222 ; as Sabah editor, 120 ; shooting
of, 259 – 61 ; as Tanin editor, 97 ,
107 , 120 ; Ta n run by, 222 , 237 ; on
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