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

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 Index


Ta n (newspaper), 222 , 237
Tanin (periodical), 97 , 107 , 120 , 164 , 238
Tanzimat era, 84 – 87 , 233
taqiyya, 8
Taussig, Michael, 7 , 228
Tekinalp, Munis (Moiz Kohen), 97 , 261
Telci, Abdurrahman, 50
Telci, Emine Dudu, 50
Telci, İbrahim, 196
Telci, Osman, 50 , 73
Terakki school, 49 – 55 ; board of, 35 ;
closed during World War I, 114 ;
closing of, 118 ; commerce school of,
57 ; modernity and tradition at, 62 ;
name changed to Şişli Terakki, 195 ;
no mosque at, 41 ; as progressive, 60 ;
reestablished in Istanbul, 193 , 194 ,
195 – 96 ; revolutionary movement
associated with, 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 100 ;
thirty-second-anniversary ball of, 114
Tesal, Ömer Dürrü, 116
Tesal, Reşat, 36 , 116 , 151 , 184 , 192
Teşvikiye Mosque (Istanbul), 41 , 189 ,
190 , 194
Tevfik Rüştü Aras, 185 , 248
Theodoridis, A., 217
Thessaloníki Landowners’ Association,
113
tobacco trade, 71
Tomanas, Kostas, 218
tombstones: Armenian and Greek
craftsmen make, 198 ; distinctive
characteristics of Dönme, 6 ; esoteric
symbolism of, 7 ; fatiha absent on,
125 , 134 ; Ottoman Turkish script on,
6 , 78 , 204 ; photographs on, 197 – 98 ;
religious themes on, 208 – 10 ; Major
Sadık on, 134 – 35 ; Salonikan origins
remembered on, 198 , 204 – 8 , 212 ;
vandalism of, 262 ; women’s portraits
on, 201 – 3
torture, 10 – 11
trade, 65 – 80 ; commercial education at
Dönme schools, 52 – 53 ; the Dönme
diaspora, 77 – 80 ; Dönme networks in


Central and Western Europe, 74 – 76 ;
Dönme religious practices while
abroad, 76 – 77 ; merchant Dönme
families, 68 – 74 ; National Turkish
Commercial Union, 166 ; Rüştü in,
157 , 296 n 4
tradition, versus modernity among
Dönme, 45 – 46 , 61 – 64 , 100
transmigration of souls (reincarnation),
5 , 9
Treitschke, Heinrich von, 181
Trotsky, Leon, 108 , 109
Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi, 161
Turkey: Anatolian Christians expelled
from, 144 , 145 – 46 , 147 , 150 ;
antisemitism in, 228 – 29 ; Armenians
deported from, 144 , 146 , 147 ,
295 n 37 ; becomes secular republic,
143 ; from cosmopolitanism to
nationalism, 243 – 54 ; defining who
was a Turk, 136 – 37 ; distinctions
between groups in, 182 – 83 ; Dönme
as useful to Turkish Republic, 248 ;
Dönme expelled from Greece to, xi,
xvi–xvii, 16 , 119 , 148 – 54 ; Dönme in
secular nation-state, 184 – 212 ; double
bind of Dönme in, 238 – 41 ; ethno-
national model in, 239 ; Istanbul in
early republic, 186 – 89 ; nationalism
in, 61 , 62 , 63 , 92 , 100 , 146 , 147 ,
181 , 228 , 237 , 245 , 249 , 251 ; from
racism to antisemitism, 254 – 58 ;
Turkification policy, 148 , 188 , 232 ,
249 , 256 ; Turkish national identity
formed, xvii; wealth tax, 223 – 35.
See also Istanbul; Ottoman Empire;
population exchange of 1923

Ülkü (newspaper), 229
“Unity in language, culture, and blood”
slogan, 249
Üzmez, Hüseyin, 260 , 313 n 8 , 314 n 9

Vahdetî, Dervish, 101 – 2 , 103 , 104 , 105 ,
107 – 8
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