Don Cardi, how could you miss that one? In the novel Tom Hagen clearly tells Vito that he was called the Turk because he spent alot of time in Turkey, had a Turkish wife, and was known for expertise with a knife. It also says that given the way he looked he could have been taken for atrue Turk. With a name like Sollozzo, do you expect him to be anything except Italian.

As I stated in my post, infidel is a pejorative term that can be applied to anyone with whom one might have a serious disagreement or an alternative point of view. Since Sollozzo was Italian, the appellation of infidel was just Vito's way of expressing his dissatisfaction witht he man.

Montauk: making your bones has nothing to do with anything else except committing a murder at the behest of Mafia members to whom you want to prove your loyalty and quality.