Turkish Jews - Notable Turkish Jews

Notable Turkish Jews

  • Jak V. Kamhi,Founding and Honorary Chairman of the Quincentennial Foundation
  • Cefi J. Kamhi, MP Turkish Parliament 1995-99 Co-Chairman F.Aff Com. European Jewish Parliament
  • Ishak Alaton, co-founder of Alarko Holding
  • Denis Öner Ojalvo, European Jewish Parliament member (MEJP)
  • Can Bonomo, Musician who represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan
  • Abraham Salomon Camondo, Ottoman-Italian financier and philanthropist and the patriarch of the Camondo family
  • Moses Capsali, first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire
  • Uzeyir Garih, co-founder of Alarko Holding
  • Umut Güzelses, Turkish-Israeli soccer player
  • Ishak Haleva, current Hakham Bashi of Turkey
  • Barzillai ben Baruch Jabez, talmudist
  • Emanuel Karasu, Salonica born Ottoman statesman
  • Dario Moreno, Izmir born musician
  • Joseph Nasi, Portuguese Ottoman Trader and the first non-Muslim to be appointed to the rank of Sanjak-bey (governor)
  • Joseph Taitazak, Spanish-born Ottoman Rabbi and Kabbalist
  • Sabbatai Zevi

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