The Donme
Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
By Marc Baer
Stanford University Press
October 16. 2009
360 p./12 illustrations.
Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of copies of two books by Soner Yalcin entitled Efendi: Beyaz Turklerin Buyuk Sirri (Master: The White Turks' Big Secret) and Efendi 2: Beyaz Muslumanlarin Buyuk Sirri (Master 2: The White Muslims' Big Secret) have been sold in Turkey. The first purports to uncover the secret Jewish identity of the secular elite that has guided the nation for over a century; the sequel claims to unmask the hidden Jews within leading Muslim families. The cover of Musanin Cocuklari Tayyip ve Emine (Moses' Children Tayyip and Emine) by Ergun Poyraz, the second best-selling book in Turkey in 2007, is a photomontage of Turkish religious Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his headscarf-wearing wife Emine-both of Jewish origin, it contends-trapped within a Star of David. Everyone important in Turkey, it seems, has Jewish ancestry. Ghost Jews haunt the Turkish popular imagination. Many Turkish secularists believe that Prime Minister Erdogan is a crypto-Jew working to undermine Turkey's secular order. Islamists and increasingly, large segments of the Turkish reading public think atheist Jews overthrew the Ottoman sultan, dissolved his Islamic Empire, replaced it with an anti-Muslim secular republic led by the "secret Jew" Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and still today control the country
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