Rıfat Nesim Bali (born 1948) is a Turkish historian specialized in

Jews in Turkey The history of the Jews in Turkey ( or ; ; () covers the 2400 years that Jews have lived in what is now Turkey. There have been Jewish communities in Anatolia since at least the beginning of the common era. Anatolia's Jewish population befo ...

. Bali was born to a

Sephardic Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...

family in

Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...

in 1948. After receiving his primary education in a Jewish school, he went to Lycée Français Saint-Michel for secondary school and Saint-Benoit for high school. He is married and has two children.

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* {{cite encyclopedia , last1=Şişman , first1=Cengiz , editor-last1= Stillman , editor-first1= Norman A. , title=Bali, Rifat , year=2010 , encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World , publisher= E. J. Brill , url=https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EJIO/SIM-0003040.xml?language=en 1948 births Turkish people of Jewish descent Living people People from Istanbul