Selâhattin Ülkümen



Selâhattin Ülkümen (1914–2003) was a Turkish diplomat on the island of Rhodes who assisted local Jews escape the Holocaust.

Turkish and Greek Jews alike were deported to the death camps from the island of Corfu, but on the island of Rhodes, where Jews had prospered during three hundred ninety years of Ottoman rule until 1917 and under Italian occupation from then until 1943, Turkey’s Consul, Selâhattin Ülkümen, saved the lives of some 42 Jewish Turkish families, totaling more than 200 persons among a Jewish community of some 2000 after the Germans took over the island following Mussolini’s removal from power and Italy’s armistice with the Allies.


Ülkümen's interventions
On 19 July 1944 the Gestapo ordered all of the island’s Jewish population to gather at its headquarters in order to register for 'temporary transportation to a small island nearby', but in fact to send them to the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Ülkümen went to the German commanding officer, General Kleeman, reminded him that Turkey was neutral in the war, and asked him to release the Jews, including not only those who were Turkish citizens but also their spouses and relatives, even though many of the latter were Italian and Greek citizens. Some time earlier, Ülkümen had secured the release of thirty-nine Turkish and Greek boatmen who had been condemned to death for taking Italian soldiers to refuge in Turkey following the German occupation, but this time the commander at first refused, stating that under Nazi law all Jews were Jews and had to go to the concentration camps. Ülkümen responded by stating that ‘under Turkish law all citizens were equal. We didn’t differentiate between citizens who were Jewish, Christian or Muslim’[1]

He went on to inform Kleeman that ‘I would advise my Government if he didn’t release the Jewish Turks it would cause an international incident. Then he agreed’ The Jews protected by Ülkümen were released, though not until they were subjected to considerable additional harassment by the Nazi authorities. Ülkümen, however, continued to provide protection and moral support to those whom he had rescued and who remained on the island, all of whom were in mortal fear that they would also suffer the same fate since they still were required to report to the Gestapo daily and never knew whether or not they would be able to return to their homes. Soon afterwards, the Greek Jews on Rhodes, numbering 673 in all, were deported to Greece, and from there onward to extermination, with only one hundred and fifty one surviving the war.


Nazi Retaliation
In retaliation for his assistance to Rhodes’ Jews, immediately after Turkey joined the Allies and declared war on the Axis, German planes bombed the Turkish consulate, killing Ülkümen’s pregnant wife Mihrinissa Hanim as well as two other employees and deported Ülkümen to Piraeus, on mainland Greece, where he spent the remainder of the war in confinement. During the next six months, the Jewish Turks remaining on Rhodes were subjected to almost constant harassment by the Gestapo which often detained them for long periods of time, though it did not deport them as planned, presumably because of the disorder which spread throughout the Third Reich during the last days of the war.

Finally, early in January, 1945, when the German commander learned that representatives of the International Red Cross were about to visit Rhodes to look into the situation of its population, most likely to avoid the very damaging -*test*-('")imony as to their treatment which would have been given, he ordered the remaining Jews to go to Turkey, which they did the next day, in small boats across a stormy sea to safety at the port of Marmaris, a journey strangely symbolic of the exodus of the Sephardi Jews from Spain through the Mediterranean to welcome in Ottoman Turkey following their expulsion by the Inquisition in 1492.

After The War
The head of the thirty-five person Jewish community that remained in Rhodes following the war, Maurice Sauriano, recently stated "I am indebted to the Turkish consul who made extraordinary efforts to save my life and those of my fellow countrymen"[3]. Thanks to the help of the Quincentennial Foundation Vice President, historian Naim Guleryuz, who amassed the necessary -*test*-('")imony from those survivors who were still living, Ülkümen was declared Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Foundation of Israel on 13 December 1989, with his name being inscribed and a tree planted in his honor at the "Path of the Righteous."

Ülkümen died in his sleep on July 7, 2003 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was 89.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selahattin_Ulkumen

Selahattin Ulkumen was a 30-year-old Turkish consul-general on the island of Rhodes which was under German occupation. In late July 1944, the Germans began the deportation of the island?s 1,700 Jews. Ulkumen managed to save approximately 50 Jews, 13 of them Turkish citizens, the rest with some Turkish connection. In protecting those who were not Turkish citizens, he clearly acted on his own initiative. In one case, survivor Albert Franko was on a transport to Auschwitz from Piraeus. Whilst still in Greek territory, he was taken off the train thanks to the intervention of Ulkumen, who was informed that Franko?s wife was a Turkish citizen. Another survivor, Matilda Toriel relates that she was a Turkish citizen living in Rhodes and married to an Italian citizen. On July 18, 1944, all the Jews were told to appear at Gestapo headquarters the following day. As she prepared to enter the building, Ulkumen approached her and told her not to go in. It was the first time she had ever met him. He told her to wait until he had managed to release her husband. As her husband later told her, Ulkumen requested that the Germans release the Turkish citizens and their families, who numbered only 15 at the time. However, Ukumen added another 25-30 people to the list whom he knew had allowed their citizenship to lapse. The Gestapo, suspecting him, demanded to see their papers, which they did not have. Ulkumen however returned to the Gestapo building, insisting that according to Turkish law, spouses of Turkish citizens were considered to be citizens themselves, and demanded their release. Matilda later discovered that no such law existed, and that Ulkumen had simply fabricated it in order to save the Jews. In the end, all those on Ulkumen?s list were released. All the rest of the Jews on the island, some 1,700, were deported to Auschwitz. In reprisal, the Nazi authorities bombed Ulkumen's house, fatally injuring his pregnant wife.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~szwetch/Sta...el/ulkumen.html

Necdet Kent



The consul who halted the death train

By Etgar Lefkovits

JERUSALEM (September 21, 2000) - Ninety-two-year-old Necdet Kent thinks back to the evening in 1943 when, as Turkish consul-general in Marseilles, he rushed to the Saint Charles train station of the southern French port city. A Jewish worker at the consulate had alerted him that 80 Turkish Jews living in Marseilles had been loaded into cattle cars for immediate transport to certain death in Germany.
The Jews were crammed one on top of the other in the wagon, which was meant to transport cattle.

"To this day, I remember the inscription on the wagon: 'This wagon may be loaded with 20 heads of cattle and 500 kilograms of grass,' " Kent recalled yesterday during a visit to Yad Vashem.

Overcome by sorrow and anger at the sight, Kent approached the Gestapo commander at the station, and demanded that the Jews, whom he said were Turkish citizens, be released.

The official refused to comply, saying that the people were nothing but Jews.

Undeterred, and in a leap of courage and human benevolence, Kent turned to the Jewish worker from the consulate and said, "Come on, we're getting on this train, too." Pushing aside the soldier who tried to stop him, he jumped into the wagon.

The German official asked him to get off, but Kent refused.

The train started to move, but at the next station, German officers boarded and apologized to Kent for not letting him off at Marseilles; a car was waiting outside to take him back to his office. But Kent explained that the mistake was not that he was on the train - but that 80 Turkish citizens had been loaded on the train.

"As a representative of a government that rejected such treatment for religious beliefs, I could not consider leaving them there," he said.

Dumbfounded by his uncompromising stance, the Germans ultimately let everyone off the train.

"I cannot forget the embraces, the expression of gratitude in the eyes of the people we rescued," he said.

Fifty-seven years later, Kent thinks back to those moments of inner peace that he felt the morning after his action.

"What I have done is what I should have done," the former diplomat, who is in Israel for an eye operation, says matter-of-factly. "I knew I had to act."
Despite a lifelong career in the foreign service, Kent would never inform his government of what he did.

"The government never encouraged me to act, and so it was none of their business," he said, adding, "If you do not feel it yourself, you will never do it."

But Kent's heroism was not limited to this one action. In contrast to some of the other foreign consulates stationed in Marseilles, who began imitating the Nazis' disdain toward Jews, Kent issued Turkish identity documents to scores of Turkish Jews living in southern France or who had fled there and did not hold valid Turkish passports.

At one point, Kent went to Gestapo headquarters to pro-*test*-('") against the la-*test*-('") abominable action that had begun in Marseilles: the stripping of males in the middle of the street to determine whether they were Jews or not. The consul-general rebuked the German commander and notified him that circumcision did not necessarily prove one's Jewishness.

"I did as much as I could in a very difficult time," Kent said yesterday after a tour of the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, escorted by the Turkish ambassador, his son and daughter-in-law, and past and present members of the French and Turkish Jewish communities.

"If I have done well, then I am proud of myself," he said.
Still, Yad Vashem has yet to confer the title of Righteous Gentile on him. The reason, according to Yad Vashem officials, is that they still need written proofs of Kent's actions by survivors.

After the war ended, Kent was stationed in London and, as he never returned to Marseilles, lost touch with the Jews he saved.

"For many years, I received a flow of letters from my co-passengers on that short but fateful train journey," said Kent. "Who knows how many of them are still alive, and how many have departed from our midst? I remember them all with kindness."

http://www.bleublancturc.com/News/Necdet_Kent.htm

Namık Kemal Yolga



Namık Kemal Yolga (1914–2001) was a Turkish diplomat and statesman, known as the Turkish Schindler. During World War II, Yolga was the Vice-Consul at the Turkish Embassy in Paris, France. His efforts to save the lives of Turkish Jews from the Nazi concentration camps earned him the title of "Turkish Schindler".

Namık Kemal Yolga was posted to Turkish Embassy in Paris in 1940 as the Vice-Consul, his first diplomatic post in a foreign country. Two months later Nazis invaded France and started their hunt for the Jews and sent them to the Drancy deportation camp near Paris, from where they were sent east to concentration camps. Young Yolga was brave enough to save the Turkish Jews one by one from the Nazi authorities, drive them in his car and hide them in safe places. Yolga's determination resulted to save all the Turkish Jews except one who was later transferred to a concentration camp in Germany. In his autobiography, Yolga described his efforts as:

"Every time we learnt that a Turkish Jew was captured and sent to Drancy , the Turkish Embassy sent an ultimatum to the German Embassy in Paris and demanded his/her release, specifically pointing out that the Turkish Constitution does not discriminate its people for their race or religion, therefore Turkish Jews are Turkish nationals and Germans have no right to arrest them as Turkey was a neutral country during the war. Then I used to go to Drancy to pick him/her up with my car and put them in a safe house. As far as I know, only one Turkish Jew from Bordeaux was sent to a camp in Germany as the Turkish Embassy was not aware of his arrest at the time."

Honors

Yolga was honoured by the "500. Yil Vakfi" (Quincentennial Foundation) in 1998. Also he and the other heroes Selâhattin Ülkümen and Necdet Kent were honored with Turkey's Supreme Service Medal as well as a special medal from Israel for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namik_Kemal_Yolga

ADOLF HITLER DER BESTE FÜHRER DER DEUTSCHEN JUGEND FICKT DIE JUDEN IN DEN ARSCH

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You need me to post this again liitle Nazi bitch ??

ICE T & BODYCOUNT - "KKK BITCH"

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Out on tour yo, I been all around the world
Went to georgia, met this fine-assed white girl,
Blonde hair, blue eyes, big tits and thighs,
The kinda girl that would knock out most guys.
She got wild in the backstage bathroom,
Sucked my dick like a muthafuckin vacuum,
Said i love you, but my daddy dont play,
Hes the fuckin grand wizard of the kkk.

I I i love my kkk bitch, love it when she sucks me though,
I I i love my kkk bitch, love it when she fucks me though,
I I i love my kkk bitch, she loves it when I treat her bad,
I I i love my kkk bitch, mutha fuck her dear old dad.

You know what Im sayin. so we was down south fallin in
Love, you know, d-roc had this nazi girl, my man
Mooseman had a skinhead, I fell in love with tipper gores
Two twelve year old nieces. it was wild, you know what im
Sayin, it got even worse, you know.

So one night they took us to a meetin
White sheets, white hoods, no room for seatin
There was skinheads, nazis and crazies,
Talkin bout black people pushin up daisies.
They hated blacks, jews, puerto ricans,
Mexicans, chinese, even the indians.
We had our hoods on,
We were slick
She pushed her butt up hard against my dick.
Then her daddy jumped on the stage
Talkin bout killin in a goddamn rage.
I got mad, my dick got hard
Entered in her ass
She said, oh my god!

I I i love my kkk bitch, love it when she fucks me though,
I I i love my kkk bitch, love it when she sucks me though,
I I i love my kkk bitch, she loves it when I treat her bad,
I I i love my kkk bitch, mutha fuck her dear old dad.

So what we really tryin to say is body count loves
Everybody. we love mexican girls, black girls, oriental girls,
It really dont matter. if you from mars, and you got a pussy,
We will fuck you. you know, thats all were sayin, word.

So every year when body count comes around
We throw an orgy in every little southern town.
Kkks, skinheads, and nazi
Girls break their necks
To get to the party.
It aint like their men cant nut,
Their dicks too little
And they just cant fuck.
So we get buck wild with the white freaks
We show them how to really work the white sheets.
I know her daddyll really be after me,
When his grandsons named little ice-t.

I I i love my kkk bitch, love it when she fucks me though,
I I i love my kkk bitch, love it when she sucks me though,
I I i love my kkk bitch, she loves it when I treat her bad,
I I i love my kkk bitch, mutha fuck her dear old dad.

Good tune, i enjoyed it.

But the thing is, A Turkish girl named Elif made that hitler video

As what Red pasted reveals:

So this was a Turkish diplomat acting without the consent of the Turkish government, which felt and acted the exact opposite.

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Turkish Jews were compelled to speak only Turkish, not Ladino their mother tongue even as late as the 1960s. The large Israeli, German language daily, Tages Nachrichten(Tel Aviv) reported on the poor condition of Turkish Jews on April 5, 1964.

Source: Ypourgeion Exoterikon(Greek Foreign Ministry), Athens to Washington and London, Dispatch No. DSK412-77, April 11, 1964.

cited in: Vryonis, Speros. The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom Of September 6-7, 1955, And The Destruction Of The Greek Community Of Istanbul. Greekworks.com (New York, 2005) pp. 563.
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During WWII Turkey used the opportunity of the European Powers being embroiled in a bitter war to renew their campaign for Milli Iktisat (National Economy). Jews were severly overtaxed along with Greek and Armenians(Varliki Vergisi) and if they could not pay they were sent to the harsh forced labor battalions in inner Anatolia(amele taburlari). This was a less harsh repeat of what they did during WWI and their alleged "War of National Liberation".

what an annoying little bitch you are Niko

Actually it did not take much time to write that.

Infact on that same page, citing the same Report (Ypourgeion Exoterikon(Greek Foreign Ministry), Athens to Washington and London, Dispatch No. DSK412-77, April 11, 1964.) it states that Turkish Jews also complained that the Turkish government interfered with all their religious functions and that every Rabbi had to appointed by the Turkish government!

BUT IN GREECE TURKEY CLAIMS THE OPPOSITE THAT WE OPRESS A TURKISH MINORITY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT ELECT A MUFTI. BUT IN TURKEY EVERY RELIGIOUS FUNCTIONARY MUST BE APPROVED BY THE TURKISH STATE, EVEN A RABBI.

I hope you guys like to enjoy basting in lies and ignorance. Keep thinking that Greeks cannot catch the lies of your state, that we cannot see through the duplicity, the doubletalk.

You need some sex. You'll feel better afterward. Or perhaps try drinking a glass of wine once in a while. If all fails I will try to find you a good doctor.