Towards the end of Ottoman empire, Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan (RA) was offered 2 Billion Dollars to give Palestine to the Jews, this scene is dramatized in the hit Turkish Drama Series Payitaht: Abdülhamid
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbloi3WdGPg
Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan (RA) despite being sick with Tuberculosis (TB), dressed in full battle gear hosted the Jews and refused to give Palestine.
Karusu Effendi
In reality, the Jew who approached the Ottomans was an Ottoman citizen Emmanuel Carasso or known in the circles in Istanbul as Karusu Effendi.
He belonged to a family of Jews who Muslims gave protection to when the Jews were exiled from Spain.
Karusu Effendi aka Emmanuel Carasso threatened the Muslim Caliph to take 2 Billion Dollars OR face the consequences.
www.youtube.com/shorts/vG6VTBwRvgU
Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan (RA) not only refused but humiliated Karusu Effendi.
The same Karusu Effendi aka Emmanuel Carasso joined Ottoman Freedom Society as a "Non-Muslim" member which later became Committee of Union and Progress.
As member of CUP he was a committee of 4, he delivered the decree of deposition to Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan (RA), officially destroying the Caliphate and imposing a puppet Caliph to hasten the demise of Ottoman Empire some years later.
Isaac Carasso & Danon Yogurt
His Nephew Isaac Carasso was born in (Ottoman) Thessaloniki who later migrated to Barcelona their native Spain from where they were exiled and created Dannon Yogurt named after his son.
