CHAPTER VII

Young Turkish nationalism--One-sided abolition of capitulations --Anti-foreign efforts at emancipation--Abolition of foreign languages--German simplicity--The Turkification of commercial life--Unmistakable intellectual improvement as a result of the war--Trade policy and customs tariff--National production--The founding of new businesses in Turkey--Germany supplanted--German starvation--Capitulations or full European control?--The colonisation and forcible Turkification of Anatolia--"The properties of people who have been dispatched elsewhere"--The "Mohadjirs"--Greek persecutions just before the Great War--The "discovery" of Anatolia, the nucleus of the Ottoman Empire--Turkey finds herself at last--Anatolian dirt and decay--The "Greater Turkey" and the purely Turkish Turkey--Cleavage or concentration? 151