Ghosts Along the Bosphorus

In came a secular republic, votes for women, new political parties, the Roman alphabet, and a transformed army whose chiefs saw themselves as defenders of Ataturk's great reforms. At Lausanne in July 1923, the newborn Ankara republic signed a treaty confirming Turkey's territorial integrit...

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Published in:World policy journal 2007-09, Vol.24 (3), p.113-118
Main Author: Meyer, Karl E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Armies
Cities
Coda
Current affairs
Districts
Foreign residents
General Interest
History
Human rights
Insurgency
International Relations
Islam
Memorials & monuments
Muslims
Ottoman Empire
Political aspects
Political parties
Politics
Presidential elections
Public Policy
Turkey
Turkish foreign relations
Turkish history
Turks
United States of America
World wars
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Summary:In came a secular republic, votes for women, new political parties, the Roman alphabet, and a transformed army whose chiefs saw themselves as defenders of Ataturk's great reforms. At Lausanne in July 1923, the newborn Ankara republic signed a treaty confirming Turkey's territorial integrity (minus the then stilldisputed Mosul region in Iraq), ending the Allied occupation, and abolishing all the hated special privileges given foreign residents. In Istanbul, a visit to the Fener and Balat districts, where few tourists tread, takes one as in a time machine to a Balkan street scene, circa 1919: chanting pushcart vendors, clothes lines crossing narrow bricked streets, shops with long vanished trades like tinsmiths, and everywhere substantial homes with overhanging balconies in varied stages of disrepair.
ISSN:0740-2775
1936-0924
DOI:10.1162/wopj.2007.24.3.113