In the early 1920s, when Britain and the Turkish Nationalists were bitter opponents, Grace Ellison travelled to Angora, the new capital, as the only Englishwoman there. She describes the town, its makeshift government, Turkish women’s changing lives and her conversations with Mustafa Kemal himself, whose own registry-office marriage she sees as a sign of the times.
A lively eyewitness account of the birth of modern Turkey from a writer who knew the country well. Download the free EPUB.