Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 19 | Kemal Seeks to Debunk National Hero of Turkey

Kemal Seeks to Debunk National Hero of T Turkey urley Article in Official Press Attacks Character of Conqueror of Con CONSTANTINOPLE Sept Sep I 1 IAP AP AP Kema roll follower ower of western cultural fashions has bowled over the George Washington of old Turkey Sultan Mohammed conqueror o of Constantinople in 1453 An article in the official press signed ned by a a. prominent deputy deput heaped insults on the national na- na Idol charging that his only motto was conquest and booty The attack on the Father ather of Turkey Turkey Tur- Tur key shows a fundamental change In Inthe inthe the national mentality since the war The author says sas that if Kemal had been on hand In 1453 Instead of the great sultan the European renaissance renaissance renais- renais sance would have sprung from Turkey Turkey Tur- Tur key ad o of Greece and Rome Mohammed he declared the error o of chasing all savants and sei- sei out of the country while Kemal ICe Ke- mal tries to bring western culture into the country The article Is particularly hard on Mohammed for not assimilating the Greeks who lived under Turkish jurisdIction It Was recalled that the Greeks formed a group in Constantinople Constantinople Con Con- they were allowed allowed al- al lowed their own language schools and customs They were allowed to pay allegiance to a patriarch who had both temporal and spiritual authority with the result that TurkIsh Turkish Turk Turk- Ish authority was undermined