Emmanuel Carasso
Emmanuel Carasso · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Sephardic lawyer of Salonika, Young Turk deputy, member of the delegation that announced his deposition to Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1909
1862, Salonique, Empire ottoman (Thessalonique, Grèce) — 1934, Trieste, Italie
Salonique, Istanbul, Trieste
Emmanuel Carasso is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Sephardic lawyer of Salonika, Young Turk deputy, member of the delegation that announced his deposition to Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1909
Origins and early life
Emmanuel Carasso was born in 1862 in Salonika, then the great Jewish port of the Ottoman Empire, into a long-established Sephardic family — the same Carasso family as Isaac Carasso, the founder of Danone — and was educated at the school of the Alliance Israélite Universelle before becoming a lawyer.
Work and career
He was a leading freemason of the city, master of the lodge Macedonia Risorta, and it was in the shelter of that lodge that the officers of the Committee of Union and Progress, the Young Turks, held their secret meetings before the revolution of 1908 that restored the Ottoman constitution. Elected deputy for Salonika in the new parliament of 1908 and later for Istanbul, he was in April 1909 one of the four members of the delegation that went to Yıldız Palace to inform Sultan Abdülhamid II of his deposition — a Jew, an Albanian, an Armenian and a Turk, chosen to represent the peoples of the Empire; he was also a leader of the Jewish community, who worked for cooperation between B'nai B'rith and the other Jewish organizations and insisted that the Jews of Turkey were 'Ottomans first and Jews second'.
Later years
During the First World War he served as economic adviser and organizer of food supply for the Committee's government, a role that made him rich and, as this fiche says plainly, brought accusations of profiteering; after the fall of the Empire he left for Trieste, took Italian citizenship and died there in 1934, and was buried in the Jewish cemetery of Arnavutköy in Istanbul. His name has been abused ever since by conspiracy writers as proof of a 'Jewish hand' behind the Young Turks; the record shows one deputy among hundreds.
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Sephardic lawyer of Salonika, Young Turk deputy, member of the delegation that announced his deposition to Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1909
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