Éditeur : Pars Matbaası | Date & Lieu : 1981, Ankara |
Préface : | Pages : 212 |
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Langue : Anglais | Format : 160x235 mm |
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. Ina. His. 1484 | Thème : Général |
Présentation
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A History of the Turkish Revolution and Turkısh Republic |
Introductıon The Republic of Turkey, which was founded in 1923, has now realized its fifty-eighth year. This constitutes only a brief period in the history of the Turkish nation, which appeared on the scene of history over two thousand years ago. The Turks have been founders of many states in many different parts of the world. The Ottoman Empire, one of the greatest empires ever founded in history, was the last great Turkish State, but it was consumed in the flames of the First World War. Out of its ashes emerged the new Turkish State, which has been flourishing for the last fifty-eight years. The creation of the modern Republic of Turkey was a long and hard struggle for the Turkish nation at a very desperate period of her history. Numerous books and articles have been written on this period of Turkish history, which was so remarkable and full of world—shaking events, in spite of the abundance of publications on this subject both in this country and abroad, there are still some gaps in our knowledge about what really happened in our country during the last sixty years. Foreign scholars find recent Turkish history to be of immense interest in mainly two respects: firstly, the Treaty of Sevres (10th August 1920) signed between the vanquished Ottoman State and the Entente Powers, the victors of the First World War, was the only treaty concluded at the end of that war which was to prove to be worth no more than a scrap of paper. A foreign observer has compared this treaty to a cracked wase which was later shattered to pieces by the Turks. According to the terms of this treaty, the Ottoman territories were to be partitioned and the Ottoman State was to be allocated a small territory in the middle of Anatolia. In order to maintain their national existence the Turks had to found a new state (23rd April 1920). ..... |