SABETAI ZVI AND SABETAISM DISCUSSIONS IN TURKEY

Sabetai Zvi[1] (1626-1676) was a Jewish ecclesiastic and Kabbalist who was born in Smyrna (İzmir) as an Ottoman Jew.[2] Zvi later enunciated himself as the long-awaited Jewish Messiah, became the founder of the Jewish-Sabetaist movement and inspired