The Rising Crescent: Turkey Yesterday, Today, and TomorrowFarrar & Rinehart, 1944 - 278 páginas |
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Albania ally AMBASSADOR IN CONSTANTINOPLE Anatolia Ankara Arabian Armenian army Asia Minor Ataturk Austria Austria-Hungary Baghdad Balkan Entente Berlin Black Sea Bosporus Britain British Bulgaria caliphs Capitulations Caucasus centuries Christian co-operation common Conference Constantinople CONSTANTINOPLE TO FOREIGN Czarist Dardanelles democratic diplomatic Eastern economic Egypt Enver Pasha Europe European fact Falkenhayn forces foreign minister Foreign Office France front frontiers German Goeben Grand Vizier Greece Greek Hitler Humann imperial independence Inonu Iran Islam Istanbul Italy Kaiser later leaders Liman Mediterranean Middle East middle land military million Mohammedan Moslem Ottoman Empire Mustafa Kemal neighbors Ottoman dynasty Ottoman Empire Ottoman Turkey pact Palestine Pan-German peace peninsula political position privileges railroad reforms revolution Rumania Russia Salonika sea power Serbia Soviet statesmen Straits Suez Sultan Syria Talaat territory tion treaty Triple Alliance Triple Entente Turkey's Turkish nation Turkish Republic Vienna WANGENHEIM Western Young Turkish Young Turks
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Página 30 - Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Página 45 - We have on our hands a sick man —a very sick man ; it will be a great misfortune if one of these days he should slip away from us before the necessary arrangements have been made.
Página 199 - The main point was that the Turkish nation should be free to lead a worthy and glorious existence. Such a condition could only be attained by complete independence. Vital as considerations of wealth and prosperity might be to a nation, if it is deprived of its independence it no longer deserves to be regarded otherwise than as a slave in the eyes of civilised humanity.
Página 179 - Turkey exercises the legislative power directly. Article 7 .• The Assembly exercises the executive power through the intermediary of the President of the Republic, whom it elects, and through a Cabinet chosen by him. The Assembly controls the acts of the government and may at any time withdraw power from it.
Página 200 - ... the state should pursue an exclusively national policy and that this policy should be in perfect agreement with our internal organization and be based on it. When I speak of national policy, I mean it in this sense: To work within our national boundaries for the real happiness and welfare of the nation and the country by, above all, relying on our own strength in order to retain our existence.
Página 166 - The name Turk, as a political term, shall be understood to include all citizens of the Turkish Republic, without distinction of, or reference to, race or religion. Every child born in Turkey, or in a foreign land of a Turkish father ; any person whose father is a foreigner established in Turkey, who resides in Turkey, and who chooses upon attaining the age of twenty to become a Turkish subject ; and any individual who acquires Turkish nationality by naturalization in conformity with the law, is a...
Página 199 - ... deficient in clarity and continuity. To unite different nations under one common name, to give these different elements equal rights, subject them to the same conditions and thus to found a mighty State is a brilliant and attractive political ideal; but it is a misleading one. It is an unrealisable aim to attempt to unite in one tribe the various races existing on the earth, thereby abolishing all boundaries. Herein lies a truth which the centuries that have gone by and the men who have lived...
Página 178 - ... limitations on personal liberty shall be defined only in strict accordance with the law. Article 69 : All Turks are equal before the law and are obliged to respect the law. All privileges of whatever description claimed by groups, classes, families and individuals are abolished and forbidden. Article 70: Inviolability of person; freedom of conscience, of thought, of speech, of press ; freedom of travel and of contract ; freedom of labor; freedom of private property, of assembly, of association...
Página 164 - The Fatherland is the sacred country within our present political boundaries, where the Turkish Nation lives with its ancient and illustrious history, and with its past glories still living in the depths of its soil.
Página 199 - In the same proportion as the internal organization of such a State suffers specially from the defect of not being national, so also its foreign policy must lack this character. For this reason, the policy of the Ottoman State was not national but individual. It was deficient in clarity and continuity. To unite different nations under one common name, to give these different elements equal rights, subject them to the same conditions and thus to found a mighty State is a brilliant and attractive political...