“A personal visit might help to clear the air”: an encounter with Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) in the memoirs of a British control officer.

Authors : Danieljoseph MACARTHURSEAL

Pages : 3-10

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Publication Date : 2021-01-20

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The article investigates questions about both British and Turkish memoir-writing and memory on a period as contested and central in the formation of national identity as the Turkish War of Independence, based on a close study of a brief interview between Atatürk and a British Control Officer in Anatolia, Walter Harold Miles, recalled in the latter`s unpublished memoirs and which has gone without mention in the extensive and detailed literature on Atatürk`s early movements after his arrival in Samsun in May 1919.
Keywords : Atatürk, Britain, War of Independence