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India Office Political and Secret Files and Confidential Print Editor: Penelope Tuson When Kemal Atatürk died in 1938, the British Ambassador to Turkey wrote to the Foreign Office about the "vast strides in moral, material and political progress" made by the country under "the dynamic impulse of this remarkable man". His report is one of a series included in this collection of political and secret files and confidential printed material from the India Office archives at the British Library. The collection focuses on the last years of the Ottoman Empire, the First World War and the emergence of the modern Turkish Republic up to the death of Atatürk. It begins with the build up of international tension before the War, symbolised by the Baghdad railway project. At the same time the material also presents a picture of the internal political development of modern Turkey from the Young Turk revolution in 1908 and 1909. A series of printed confidential Foreign Office correspondence describes the political situation in Constantinople and events in other Ottoman territories in the 1900s. During the First World War there are secret and confidential intelligence reports and handbooks on all the Turkish provinces. After the end of hostilities in 1918 the files detail the lengthy peace negotiations, the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the official diplomatic recognition of the new Turkish state by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. They contain reports on foreign relations, boundaries and territorial issues including the hostilities between Turkey and Greece in the early 1920s. In the domestic sphere, they also contain detailed information on the financial and economic situation, education, the distribution of population, military and naval affairs and aviation. This British Library material, published for the first time, provides a unique opportunity to study the origins of modern Turkey and its historical position in Europe and the wider world. Also available on microfilm. Please contact sales@idc.nl for price information.
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