MUSTAFA ISMET


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Mustafa Ismet

If the government is determined to reject what we have accepted, then do not ask us to do it…since the supreme interests of the country are above personal considerations, the national government can act according to its conviction. We expect no thanks from the government. The nation and history will be our judge.
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He was at that time the chosen delegate to the peace conference. The government officials were unhappy with their agreement. Ataturk overruled the government and the treaty was signed.

Mustafa Ismet

So long as any large number of Kurds are included in Iraq the Turkish government would have perpetual trouble in their eastern provinces.
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The problem persisted into the 21st century. Iraqi Kurds have constantly tried to carve out parts of Iran and Turkey with ethnic Kurds and form them into a Kurdish nation, separate and distinct from Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Some of the Kurds became fanatic terrorists to that end killing many in all three countries as well as fomenting civil war with other Kurdish factions in Iraq.

Mustafa Ismet

We encountered the greatest resistance when we abolished the caliphate. But the two-headed system could not go on for ever. It nourished the expectation that the sovereign would return under the guise of caliph…and gave hope to the [Ottoman dynasty].
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The caliphate was abolished by the Turkish republic in 1924

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