SPEAKING OF THE TURKS
BY
MUFTY-ZADE K. ZIA Bey
LONDON
STANLEY PAUL & CO.
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| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Homecoming | 3 |
| II. | Summer Months | 16 |
| III. | Erenkeuy | 29 |
| IV. | Modern Turkish Women | 47 |
| V. | Life on the Bosphorus | 67 |
| VI. | Stamboul | 87 |
| VII. | Business in Constantinople | 107 |
| VIII. | A Stamboul Night | 127 |
| IX. | A Night in Pera | 145 |
| X. | Constantinople, 1922 | 161 |
| XI. | Robert College | 183 |
| XII. | Education and Art | 204 |
| VXIII. | A Glimpse of Islam | 224 |
| XIV. | A Voice from Anatolia | 245 |
Speaking of The Turks
WE were arriving at Constantinople, my nativecity, from which I had been absent nearlyten years. I had been in America all this time.At first my business interests and later the generalwar had prevented my coming back to myown country even on a visit. I was of militaryage and Turkey was under blockade. When Ihad left Constantinople a few years after theTurkish revolution, the whole country was exhilarated,filled with joy, with ambition and withhope. Freedom and emancipation from an autocraticdomination had been obtained. Nothingwas to prevent the normal advance of Turkey andthe Turks along the road to progress. We wereat last to obtain full recognition as a civilizednation. We were at last to receive equal treatmentfrom the other European nations.
But, alas, during the following years the godsdecided otherwise. Long, interminable wars