^{#smrgKİTABEVİ}A Scapegoat for All Seasons: The Dönmes or Crypto - Jews of Turkey

The book is a study of the demonization of the Doenmes (Crypto-Jews, whose ancestors were followers of the so-called messiah Sabbatai Tsvi), in today's Turkish society and Turkish media. It studies why antisemitic books declaring that "the Turkish Republic is governed by Crypto-Jews" became best-sellers in Turkey and how this mentality had been widely disseminated in Turkey.

The topic of the Dönme, or Sabbateans as they have increasingly been referred to of late, has in recent years grown into a much discussed and hotly debated issue in the Turkish media, so much so that certain journals have devoted entire issues to it and television talk shows have hosted lengthy and repeated debates, with various so-called “specialists” on the subject -as often as not ill-informed conspiracy theorists or antisemites- taking part along side or in place of journalists and academics....

1. A Scapegoat for All Seasons: the Dönmes or Crypto-Jews of Turkey 2. A Delusional Obsession: the "Dönme" Question 3. Statements by Persons Accused of Being Dönmes 4. The Dönmes in Memoirs and Interviews 5. A Testimony by V. Avdet: "How I Discovered the Truth About My Ancestors' Origins" 6. The Nazis Perceptions of the Dönmes 7. Mustafa Kemal and the Claim of his Dönme Roots 8. The Dönmes as a Theme of Turkish Antisemitism 9. A Recent Antisemitic Theme: The Sabbatean Role in the Armenian Genocide 10. What is Efendi Telling us? 11. What is Really Being Discussed Here, Sabbateanism or the Republican Regime? 12. A Mutilated Translation: Gerschom Scholem's Sabbatai Sevi

APPENDICES 1. The Chapter Titled "Sabbataism and Sabbataists" From Şeref Mercan's Book. 2. Mehmed Şevket Eygi: "The Awesome Power of the Dönmes" 3. Mehmed Şevket Eygi: "Various Question and Their Answers" 4. Abdurrahman Dilipak: "Bülbül Deresi" 5. The writings of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek 6. Gökhan Yamangül: "Dictionary of the Official [State] Ideology" 7. Mustafa Müftüoğlu, "A Turkist and a Dönme" 8. Alper Sedat Aslandaş-Baskın Bıçakçı: "Salonican Dönme" Glosssary Bibliography