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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

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MUSTAPHA KEMAL PASHA, THE MAN 1

His personal appearance—The Eastern tradition of
government under which he was born—The Western
tradition which he has sought to transplant to his
country—The diversion of the Turks from a military
to an economic life, which he is beginning—"Do you
think you will succeed?"


CHAPTER II

THE OLD OTTOMAN EMPIRE 11

Kemal's birth at Salonica—How he became a Young
Turk—What the old Ottoman Empire was like—The
division of its population into religious communities—The
Western challenge of its Rûm (Greek) community—Its
duty to Islam.


CHAPTER III

THE YOUNG TURKISH PROGRAM 22

Kemal's arrest and his exile to Damascus—His eventual
return to Salonica—What the Young Turks wanted—The
religious conservatism which confronted them—The
role of American missionaries and educators—Christendom
vs. Islam.


CHAPTER IV

THE RUSSIAN MENACE 38

How Russia and Great Britain fought across the old
Ottoman Empire—How Russia entered Trans-Caucasia
and came into contact with the Armenians—How
it approached the back of British India through
Central Asia—How Great Britain finally surrendered
in the Anglo-Russian Treaty of 1907.