Tekin Alp

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Marcel Samuel Raphael Cohen (1883-1961), who later changed his name to Munis Tekin Alp, was born to a Jewish family in Salonica under Ottoman control (now Thessaloniki,Greece). He was one of the founding fathers of Turkish nationalism and an ideologue of Pan-Turkism. He was a proponent of minorities within the Turkish Republic Turk-ifying themselves, and wrote such in his pamphlet Türkleştirme (1928).