Hikmet Tanyu (1918 – 1992) was a Turkish scientist and college professor of philosophy and history of religions who specialized in Jewish religious history. He studied in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

in the 1970s and wrote a book titled ''Jews and Turks throughout History'' which examines Jewish history and relations between Jewish and Turkish societies through history. This book is considered as the first serious approach to the

Jewish history Jewish history is the history of the Jews, and their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures. Although Judaism as a religion first appears in Greek records during the Hellenisti ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. Tanyu was also a devoted nationalist in the Republic of Turkey in the 1940s, he was tried in the

Racism-Turanism trials During the Racism-Turanism trials ( tr, Irkçılık-Turancılık Davası) the prosecution accused the defendants of spreading racist and pan-Turkist ideologies and attempting a coup on the Turkish Government. The trials lasted between May 1944 a ...

. He was acquitted and released after six months in prison. Due to the tortures he had been inflicted on while imprisoned, he filed a lawsuit against the Turkish authorities at the

Council of State A Council of State is a governmental body in a country, or a subdivision of a country, with a function that varies by jurisdiction. It may be the formal name for the cabinet or it may refer to a non-executive advisory body associated with a head o ...

.Uzer, Umut (2016), p.158

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20th-century Turkish historians 1918 births 1992 deaths Pan-Turkists Turanists Turkish expatriates in Israel {{Turkey-historian-stub