Abdullah Djevdetbey, editor of “Ictiha,” died here yesterday at the age of seventy-six.
The deceased was one of the few friends the Jewish National movement has had in Turkey. He participated in the first Zionist Congress and helped Theodor Herzl make his representations to the Turkish Sultan.
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