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Stanford and Berkeley graduate, Prof. Sean McMeekin has compiled the period from Abdulhamid's ascension to the throne until Lausanne in a 526-page book titled The Last Chapter in the Ottoman Empire. ‘I was very impressed by Ataturk’s putting forward his vision of a constitutional Republic of Turkey, instead of using his military prestige in 1922 to seek to become sultan.’
"What do you think, he's giving 600 liras for a thousand liras?" he would ask. He thought he was fooling us, but of course that wasn't true. There was also a banker in Tepebaşı named Ferdinand Manukyan. This man was the brother of Matild Manukyan, the once tax record holder and queen of brothels... Abdurrahman Keskiner, "Producer", ALFA Printing and Distribution Co. Ltd., 2024 Author: Ali Can Sekmeç
