Two war years in Constantinople

Anti-war and pro-Entente feelings among the Turks--Turkish pessimism about the war--How would Abdul-Hamid have acted?--A war of prevention against Russia--Russia and a neutral T...

Religion and race--The Islam policy of Abdul-Hamid and of the Young Turks--Turanism and Pan-Islamism as political principles--Turanism and the Quadruple Alliance--Greed and race...

In spite of all, I returned to Constantinople from my first visit to the Dardanelles with very little diminution of friendly feeling towards the Turks. My first experience when...

The outlook for the future--The consequences of trusting Germany--The Entente's death sentence on Turkey--The social necessity for this deliverance--Anatolia, the new Turkey aft...

The tide of war--Enver's offensive for the "liberation of the Caucasus"--The Dardanelles Campaign; the fate of Constantinople twice hangs in the balance--Nervous tension in inte...

German propaganda and ethics--The unsuccessful "Holy War" and the German Government--"The Holy War" a crime against civilisation, a chimera, a farce--Underhand dealings--The Ger...

Young Turkish nationalism--One-sided abolition of capitulations--Anti-foreign efforts at emancipation--Abolition of foreign languages--German simplicity--The Turkification of co...

The economic situation--Exaggerated Entente hopes--Hunger and suffering among the civil population--The system of requisitioning and the semi-official monopolists--Profiteering...

Anyone who, like myself, set foot on German soil for the first time after years of sojourn in foreign lands, and more particularly in the colonies, just at the moment that Germa...

A few days after the fall of Przemysl I set out for Constantinople. I left Germany with a good deal of friendly feeling towards the Turk. I was even quite well disposed towards...

The tide of war--Enver's offensive for the "liberation of the Caucasus"--The Dardanelles Campaign; the fate of Constantinople twice hangs in the balance--Nervous tension in inte...

Young Turkish nationalism--One-sided abolition of capitulations --Anti-foreign efforts at emancipation--Abolition of foreign languages--German simplicity--The Turkification of c...

The outlook for the future--The consequences of trusting Germany--The Entente's death sentence on Turkey--The social necessity for this deliverance--Anatolia, the new Turkey aft...

Religion and race--The Islam policy of Abdul-Hamid and of the Young Turks--Turanism and Pan-Islamism as political principles--Turanism and the Quadruple Alliance--Greed and race...

The economic situation--Exaggerated Entente hopes--Hunger and suffering among the civil population--The system of requisitioning and the semi-official monopolists--Profiteering...

Anti-war and pro-Entente feelings among the Turks--Turkish pessimism about the war--How would Abdul-Hamid have acted?--A war of prevention against Russia--Russia and a neutral T...

German propaganda and ethics--The unsuccessful "Holy War" and the German Government--"The Holy War" a crime against civilisation, a chimera, a farce--Underhand dealings--The Ger...