Archive for October, 2006
Mustafa Kemal (1881–1938), the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Army in the Independence Struggle of Turkey and the first president of the Turkish Republic, delivered his seminal speech entitled Nutuk [The speech] in 1927 in Ankara to the Congress of the Cumhuriyet Halk Fırkası (Republican People’s Party). Nutuk was epic in proportion and content. Delivered by […]
The modern Turkish Republic was founded exactly 83 years ago today, on October 29, 1923.
Note: For those of you in the Boston area, today marks the start of the 11th Boston Turkish Arts and Culture festival.
The following is a brief summary of the history of the modern Turkish Republic, from US Library of Congress:
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George Orwell once said: ‘There is no such thing as a genuinely nonpolitical literature.”
Many people around the world claim that such is the case for Pamuk’s Nobel Prize, first Nobel Prize awarded to a Turk. Pamuk has been a candidate for Nobel prize since 2002 for his novels, but unfortunately, he is best known for […]
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