Selahattin Ülkümen, Turkish diplomat (d. 2003)
Selahattin Ülkümen (14 January 1914 in Antakya – 7 June 2003 in Istanbul) was a Turkish diplomat and consul in Rhodes during the Second World War, who assisted Jewish community in the island with Turkish citizenship to avoid deportation during the Holocaust. In 1989 Israel recognized him as among the Righteous Among the Nations and listed his name at Yad Vashem.
Turkish and Greek Jews were deported to death camps from the island of Corfu. But on the island of Rhodes, Turkey’s Consul, Selahattin Ülkümen, saved the lives of close to 50 people, among a Jewish community of some 2,000 after the Germans took over the island. The German occupation followed Italy's removal of Benito Mussolini from power and its armistice with the Allies.
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