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<html> <head> <title>Turkey - D鰊me</title> <meta name="keywords" content="Turkey"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <h2 align="center">D鰊me</h2> <div align="center"> <center> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="2" width="590" border="0"> <tr> <td><a href="http://countrystudies.us/turkey/">Turkey Table of Contents</a> <p>The D鰊me are descendants of the Jewish followers of a self-proclaimed messiah, Sabbatai Sebi (or Zevi, 1626-76), who was forced by the sultan to convert to Islam in 1666. Their doctrine includes Jewish and Islamic elements. They consider themselves Muslims and officially are recognized as such. Their name is the Turkish word for <em>convert</em> , but it carries overtones of <em>turncoat</em> as well.</p> <p>The D鰊me have been successful in business and in the professions, but historically they have not been part of the social elite because neither Jews nor Muslims fully accept them. Experience with prejudice inclines some D鰊me to hide their identity to avoid discrimination and also has encouraged the D鰊me to become a tightly knit, generally endogamous group. Since the early 1980s, however, overt discrimination has lessened, and intermarriage between D鰊me and other Muslims has grown common.</p> <style type="text/css"> @import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css); </style> <div class="cse-branding-right" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#000000"> <div class="cse-branding-form"> <form action="http://www.google.com/cse" id="cse-search-box"> <div> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-3994295485955294:ddm9fpeyyj8" /> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" /> <input type="text" name="q" size="31" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /> </div> </form> </div> <div class="cse-branding-logo"> <img src="http://www.google.com/images/poweredby_transparent/poweredby_FFFFFF.gif" alt="Google" /> </div> <div class="cse-branding-text"> Custom Search </div> </div> <p><font size="2">Source: <i>U.S. Library of Congress</i></font> </p> <p></p><p></p></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> </body> </html>