Speaking of the Turks

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K. Ziya bey Mufti-zada. Speaking of the Turks

Speaking of the Turks

Table of Contents

I. HOMECOMING

II. SUMMER MONTHS

III. ERENKEUY

IV. MODERN TURKISH WOMEN

V. LIFE ON THE BOSPHORUS

VI. STAMBOUL

VII. BUSINESS IN CONSTANTINOPLE

VIII. A STAMBOUL NIGHT

IX. A NIGHT IN PERA

X. CONSTANTINOPLE, 1922

XI. ROBERT COLLEGE

XII. EDUCATION AND ART

XIII. A GLIMPSE OF ISLAM

XIV. A VOICE FROM ANATOLIA

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K. Ziya bey Mufti-zada

Published by Good Press, 2021

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In this atmosphere of suspense the last days of our stay in Prinkipo drew near. Our house in Stamboul would be ready now in about a month. I had promised my wife to take her to Erenkeuy and to the Bosphorus. My father wanted us to discharge our obligations towards the rest of the family and besides he was soon going back to town himself. The season of Prinkipo was at its end. Constantinople and its surrounding are at their best in the early fall, but Prinkipo gets too cold. The bathing season was finished, the yachting season was at its end. The hotels were closing. One by one the villas were shutting their hospitable doors. The summer colony was disbanding. Prinkipo was preparing for its annual winter sleep.

We packed our bags and went to visit my aunts.

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