Mehmed Talaat: Demolitionist founder of post-Ottoman Turkey

Title: Mehmed Talaat: Demolitionist founder of post-Ottoman Turkey
Creator: Kieser, Hans-Lukas
Relation: The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism p. 19-46
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781788317511.ch-001
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2019
Description: It was spring 1915. Let us zoom in on the office of Talaat Bey, the minister of the interior in the building of the so-called Sublime Porte, seat of the imperial government in the historical centre of the European side of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. Bulky but not fat, Talaat was a tall man with wide shoulders, a broad face, black eyes, bushy eyebrows and black hair (that was to turn gray in 1918). Physically and mentally, he was an imposing figure. His office was a big and relatively light room, particularly notable for the several telephones on his desk. At times, the minister also gave his orders from the telegraph in his home office.
Subject: imperial government; Ottoman; Mehmed Talaat; Talaat Bey
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1482870
Identifier: uon:51042
Identifier: ISBN:9781788317511
Language: eng

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