Hikmet Tanyu

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Prof. Dr. Hikmet Tanyu is a respected scientist and college professor of philosophy and history of religions who specialized in Jewish religious history. He stayed in Israel for a while in the 1970s and wrote a book called Turks and Jews, Through History which examines Jewish history and relations between Jewish and Turkish societies through history. This book is considered as the first serious scientific approach to the Jewish history in Turkey.

Tanyu is also a devoted nationalist and one of the original members of the first Turkist movement in Republic of Turkey at the 40's.

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