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Ghazi Osman Pacha
TURKISH MEMORIES
BY
SIDNEY WHITMAN
AUTHOR OF
“GERMAN MEMORIES” etc.
WITH FRONTISPIECE
NEW YORK: CHAS. SCRIBNER’S SONS
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
MCMXIV
Printed in England
INSCRIBED
TO THE MEMORY OF
AHMED MIDHAT EFFENDI
LATE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
IMPERIAL OTTOMAN BOARD
OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN
CONSTANTINOPLE
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PREFACE
Our aim should be neither to mock, to bewail, nor
to denounce men’s actions, but to understand them.
Spinoza
The following pages are the outcome of severalprolonged visits to Constantinople, Macedonia, andAsiatic Turkey, covering a period of twelve years,from 1896 to 1908. Several of these were made underexceptional circumstances and embody experiencessuch as do not often fall to the lot of a traveller, someof which, I venture to think, are of lasting publicinterest.
Anyone who has had personal relations with anautocra
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