An indefatigable name-dropper, RF
wrote that the greatest, and most sensible, man she had ever met was Kemal Atatürk
; she then bracketed with him Franklin Delano Roosevelt
.
Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell, 1944.
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In Cairo she was always...
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Ann Bridge
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's historical novel The Dark Moment built its story of female friendship around the events leading up to the revolution of 1923 which brought Turkey, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
...
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Ann Bridge
AB
here pays her acknowledgements to Turkish friends and officials as well as English institutions, and also to Winston Churchill
's The Aftermath (1929, last volume of The World Crisis, 1923-9), which she calls...
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Rosita Forbes
She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents.
qtd. in
Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, 6 Apr. 1940, p. 166.
166
The dominant figures of Hitler
and Stalin
are flanked...
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Ann Bridge
Fanny later chooses to call herself Fani, and her devotion to the cause of Turkish progress ends in romantic love for the architect of that progress, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
or Kemal Pasha. While Féridé...
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29 October 1923: The republic of Turkey was formed, after...
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29 October 1923
The republic of Turkey was formed, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish defeat in World War One, through the efforts of army officer Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
(1881-1938).