Salonika Committee

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Salonika Committee, which was powerful in Constantinople, was largely recruited from and supported by Jewish elements. [1]

[edit] Background

“ "It is a well-known fact that the Salonika Committee was formed under Masonic auspices with the help of the Jews and Donmehs, or crypto-Jews of Turkey, whose headquarters are at Salonika, and whose organization took, even under Abdul Hamid, a Masonic form. Jews like Emmanuel Carasso, Salem, Sassun, Fardji, Meslah, and Donmehs or crypto-Jews, like Djavid Bey and the Baldji family, took an influential part both in the organization of the Committee and in the deliberations of its central body at Salonika. These facts, which are known to every Government in Europe, are also known throughout Turkey and the Balkans, where an increasing tendency is noticeable to saddle the Jews and Donmehs with responsibility for the sanguinary blunders which the Committee has made."—Vienna Correspondent for The Times, "Jews and the Situation in Albania" [2] ”

[edit] Events

  • In 1903, the Salonika committee bombed the Osmanli Bank in the city of Salonika, causing many casualties. [3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ SOCIAL AND DIPLOMATIC MEMORIES, 1902-1919 BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR JAMES RENNELL RODD, G.C.B.
  2. ^ The Times, (11 July 1911), p. 5.
  3. ^ Defeat in Detail: the Ottoman army in the Balkans, 1912-1913 - Page 43 by Edward J. Erickson