Loss of empire halts Turkish marking of WWI: Historian
Barçın YİNANÇ ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News The collapse of the Ottoman Empire might have ushered in the birth of the republic, but the disappearance of the fo...
Month: August 2014
Why don’t Turks commemorate the outbreak of World War 1?
BARÇIN YİNANÇ Hurriyet Daily News The question in the title was put to me by a foreign reader of the Hürriyet Daily news. It was posed last month, right after t...
When it all began?
By fratermal OregonLive In late evening of August 10, 1914, a Turkish destroyer, acting on instructions from authorities in Constantinople, escorted into and th...