History Of The Republic Of Turkey
The Republic of Turkey was created after the overthrow of Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin by the new Republican Parliament in 1922. This new regime delivered the coup de grâce to the Ottoman state which had been practically wiped away from the world stage following the First World War.
Read more about History Of The Republic Of Turkey: Single-party Period, 1923–1946, Multi-party Period, 1946–present
Famous quotes containing the words history of the, history of, history, republic and/or turkey:
“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (18801932)
“The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.”
—Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Prof. Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll)
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“You can make as good a design out of an American turkey as a Japanese out of his native stork.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)