Thesssaloniki, Greece

1.Vicomte Leon de Poncins, "Freemasonry and Judaism: Secret Powers Behind Revolution", Sept. 1994, Page 66
2.Jewsish community in Thessaloniki, official documentation of Foundation for the Advancement of Separdic Studies and Culture, Part 1 to 3 http://www.sephardicstudies.org/thes.html
3.Crash Course in Jewish History by Rabbi Ken Spiro, Part 41, "The Jews of Babylon" part 44"The Jew in Spain" and Part 45 "The Spanish Inquisition" http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_43_-_The_Jews_of_Babylon.asp
4.A Christian Traveler from Sweden to Eretz Yisrael 280 Years Ago by Dr. Raphael Manfred Lehmann, http://www.manfredlehmann.com/news/news_detail.cgi/147/0
5.The Dönmes: Crypto-Jews under Turkish Rule by Dr. Jacob M. Landau Published March 2007, Jewish Political Studies Review, 19:1-2 (Spring 2007) http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=5&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=388&PID=1666&IID=1669&TTL=The_D%C3%B6nmes:_Crypto-Jews_under_Turkish_Rule
6.The Jew in Benjamin Disraeli, The Earl of Beaconsfeld, by Dr, Rapheal Manfred , http://www.manfredlehmann.com/news/news_detail.cgi/50/0
7.The Year 1840- Zionism and Messianism, by Dr. Rapheal Manfred http://www.manfredlehmann.com/news/news_detail.cgi/133/0
8.Crash Course in Jewish History, Part 53, "The age of Enlightenment" and Part 54, " The Reforms Movements" by Rabbi Ken Spiro http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_54_-_Reform_Movement.asp
9.Emmanuel Carasso: Britannica CD Deluxe Version
10.Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire:Britannica Deluxe CD version
11. Mudros, Armistice of: Brittanica CD Deluxe version
12:Thessaloniki:Brittanica Deluxe CD version
13. "The Jews of the East", Originally published in The Occident and American Jewish Advocate Volume I, No. 1 Nisan 5603 / April 1843 http://www.sephardicstudies.org/east.html
14. Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 by Gershom Gerhard ScholemPublished by Princeton University Press, 1973
pp 674-675
15. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Foundation for the advancement of Sephardic studies and culture, http://www.sephardicstudies.org/ataturk.html
16.Ataturk's influence on "Jewish" life in Turkiye, a Personal View
Contributed by Roz Kohen Drohobyczer, http://www.sephardicstudies.org/ataturkrz.html
17."When kamal Ata Turk recited Shema Yisrael by Hillel Halkin, 1994,
http://tazeen-howjewssnatchedpalestine.blogspot.com/2008/08/when-kemal-ataturk-recited-shema.html
18. Young Turks: Britannica
19.Encyclopedic Dictionary of Judaism, Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 1993, article Sabbataï Tsevi
Although they chose conversion, they did not assimilate with the Turks, practicing strict endogamy, living in separate quarters, building their own mosques and maintaining a specific liturgy in the language.
20.Gilles Veinstein,Salonika 1850-1918, the "city of the Jews" and the revival of the Balkans, p.58-62. After several years of caution, he again caused a scandal when, during a solemn banquet in the courtyard of the Shalom Synagogue, he pronounced the Tetragrammaton, ineffable in Jewish tradition, and introduced himself as the Messiah son of King David.
His passage divided, as it did everywhere, Thessaloniki's Jewish community, and this situation caused so much turmoil that Sabbatai Zevi was summoned and imprisoned by the sultan. There, rather than prove his supernatural powers, he relented under fire, and instead converted to the Islam. The dramatic turn of events was interpreted in various ways by his followers, the Sabbateans. Some saw this as a sign and converted themselves, while others rejected his doctrine and fully returned to Judaism. Some, though, remained publicly faithful to Judaism while continuing to secretly follow the teachings of Sabbatai Zevi.
21.Ottoman Sultans and Their Jewish Subjects,
by Harry Ojalvo of Istanbul, Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, http://www.sephardicstudies.org/sultans1.html
22. Satanic Voices, Ancient and Modern by David Musa Pidcock, Chapter carved Turkey, http://www.islamicparty.com/satvoices/carved.htm
23. Young Turks Revolution: Britannica