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Sami Hochberg is a relatively famous Zionist in the Western world, especially among Jews. It is not a common occurrence to coincide with him in the literature related to Ottoman history, even though he had spent the most active days of his life in Istanbul. However, the events that he was involved in are of their own importance in terms of their shape and years of occurrence. The city and countries where Sami Hochberg lived, and his relatively richer and more colorful life in terms of his attributes and identities present us not only how the Ittihat and Terakki government followed a policy against Zionists, Arabs and the European Great Powers before and during the First World War but also what lies in the historical background of the reconciliation or conflict of that groups in question. However, the current literature on him sometimes presents interruptions and gaps in presenting these sections to the reader, and sometimes in combining the sections to reveal the big picture. The documents related to Sami Hochberg encountered in the Ottoman archives have awaked such a conviction on the researcher. One of the main objectives of this study is to be able to bring together Samuel Hochberg (in the literatüre) and Sami Hoşberg (in documents) as a step towards the removal of the mentioned gaps. Thus from Sami Hochberg´s point of view it will be possible to consider some developments like rivalry, conflict and partial reconciliation among the religious, ethnic and the political forces some of which are listed above and many of which will be referred in the course of the study.

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