The Awakening of TurkeyJ. Milne, 1909 - 355 páginas |
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... live in the country look on the Turk as an honest man and a man of his word . " It must be remembered that the corrupt officialdom created by the Palace , which had a degrading influence on everything in touch with it , is not ...
... live in the country look on the Turk as an honest man and a man of his word . " It must be remembered that the corrupt officialdom created by the Palace , which had a degrading influence on everything in touch with it , is not ...
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... live partly on garbage and partly on the scraps of food which even very poor Turks put out for them . These dogs , though fighting among themselves , display nothing but friendship for , and confidence in , man . They never move for one ...
... live partly on garbage and partly on the scraps of food which even very poor Turks put out for them . These dogs , though fighting among themselves , display nothing but friendship for , and confidence in , man . They never move for one ...
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... lives , honour and property . Again , in 1856 , after the Crimean war , the Hatti Houmaioum Firman announced among other things the complete equality in the eyes of the law of the Christians and Mussulmans in Turkey . I need 1 L ...
... lives , honour and property . Again , in 1856 , after the Crimean war , the Hatti Houmaioum Firman announced among other things the complete equality in the eyes of the law of the Christians and Mussulmans in Turkey . I need 1 L ...
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... lives of such of his subjects as were regarded as suspects on account of their good birth , enlightenment , patriot- ism , or honourable character . The expenditure on this espionage sometimes amounted to as much as two million pounds a ...
... lives of such of his subjects as were regarded as suspects on account of their good birth , enlightenment , patriot- ism , or honourable character . The expenditure on this espionage sometimes amounted to as much as two million pounds a ...
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... live isolated lives , the tedium of which they relieved by reading , with a greater avidity than is displayed in other countries , where men have wider scope for their intellectual energies , works on history , philosophy and law , and ...
... live isolated lives , the tedium of which they relieved by reading , with a greater avidity than is displayed in other countries , where men have wider scope for their intellectual energies , works on history , philosophy and law , and ...
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The Awakening of Turkey: A History of the Turkish Revolution Edward Frederick Knight Visualização completa - 1909 |
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Abd-ul-Aziz Abdul Hamid Ahmed Riza Albanian appointed Armenians Asia barracks battalions Bulgarian Camarilla capital cause Christian command Committee of Union Committee's Constantinople Constitution corrupt crowds dangerous Deputies Despotism district elections electors enemies Enver Bey Europe European exile faithful fanatical fedais foreign friends garrison Government Grand Vizier Greek bands Guard Hilmi Pasha intrigue Jews justice Kiamil Pasha Kurds leaders Liberal Union liberty Macedonia Macedonian troops massacres ment Midhat Pasha military ministers mittee of Union Monastir Moslem mosques movement Mussulman mutineers nation Nazim Nazim Pasha Niazi Bey Ochrida old régime organisation Ottoman Empire Palace Parliament patriotic Turks political population Powers prisoners reactionaries realised recognised reform Resna revolution revolutionary Salonica secret society sent Sheikh-ul-Islam Shemshi soldiers spies Stamboul streets strong Sublime Porte Sultan sympathy things Third Army Corps thousand tion Turkey Turkey's Turkish Union and Progress Vali village vote Yildiz young officers Young Turk party
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Página 50 - Baghdad railway concession with its iniquitous kilometric guarantee, and other privileges, on terms far more onerous for Turkey than could have been obtained from other quarters, thus burdening the country with unfair obligations, which now cripple her efforts for reform and reorganisation. But I must not digress into the tortuous ways of Turkish finance, which is outside the scope of this book. Suffice it to say that German influence at the Palace undoubtedly intensified the Sultan's hatred of England,...
Página 9 - ... move for one as they sprawl across the narrow pavements, for they know that no Turk would have the heart to kick them out of the way. A few years ago an American offered a very large sum for the right to clear Constantinople of its pariah dogs, his object being to sell their skins to the glove makers. The populace raised a howl of indignation when they heard of this, and had not the scheme been abandoned serious riots would have occurred. There is no need for a society for the prevention of cruelty...
Página 5 - A traffic study is of value only for the purpose of helping the road engineer determine the type of road to build and the best method of maintenance. A few words on this subject may not be out of place.
Página 51 - Consulate, and is now one of the leading members of the Committee of Union and Progress in Salonika.
Página 122 - Empire doing their dangerous work, urging the civil population to embarrass the Government by a refusal to pay taxes and to prepare for a general...
Página 122 - ... promise not to fight against their own countrymen when ordered to do so. So as to obtain easy access to houses and barracks, Turkish officers disguised themselves as hawkers of cheap jewelry and ribbons, or as the peripatetic sutlers who sell sherbet and little comforts to the Turkish soldier ; and in their packs were always concealed the revolutionary tracts that were to spread the propaganda. One well-known officer for long kept a barber's shop in Bagdad, and inoculated his customers with the...
Página 276 - Turk organisation would be needed more than ever for the protection of the country, and would have to continue its existence, with the army behind it as heretofore, for a long while to come. The...
Página 130 - ... the revolutionary movement.63 The Committee of Union and Progress therefore held secret meetings in Salonica in May. It was decided that it had become necessary for the Committee to reveal to the European Powers the fact of its real existence and great influence, and also to explain to those Powers that the Committee alone could bring peace to Macedonia, and that for various reasons it would be better that Europe should abandon all these futile schemes of reform and leave Macedonia to, work out...
Página 93 - December 1907 a Congress of the Turkish revolutionaries met in Paris, at which were represented the Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress, the Armenian, Bulgarian, Jewish, Arab, Albanian and other Committees ; and the delegates all agreed to accept the following principles : — The deposition of the Sultan Abdul Hamidr1' The maintenance of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire.