by Mahmut Esat OZAN
mozan@webtv.net
WHO WAS A ROMAN? WHO WAS AN OTTOMAN? WHO IS A TURK?
Before answering these questions above, let us pose another one, “What are the similarities existing among the old citizens of the Roman and Ottoman Empires and the contemporary inhabitants of modern Turkey?” Well, here’s the answer: We must acknowledge and accept the fact [...]

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To: Letters@independent.co.uk
Cc: editor@independent.co.uk
Subject: Article by Robert Fisk “You’re talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador”
TISK-TISK, ROBERT FISK (Or shame on you Mr. know-it-all.)
(An Editorial)
Mahmut Esat Ozan
Chairman -Editorial Board
The Turkish Forum
Mr. Fisk, there is nothing worse in this world than being labeled a ”know-it-all”. A person by that title is one who pretends to know something about everything but [...]

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Mahmut Esat Ozan
Chairman-Editorial Board
The Turkish Forum-USA
We already began to miss our brother Edward.He was more close to us than many a Turk who unwittingly and with great ingratitude turned against their own country and brothers and sisters. The Akcams, the Berktays, the Goceks and so on are probably happy that one less critic of them [...]

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Stories compiled By Prof. Mahmut Esat Ozan
It was on November 24, 1935 that Mustafa Kemal, the first president of the young Turkish Republic, was given the name of ATATÜRK by the Grand National Assembly. He had led his people through war into self-government and finally into an entirely new way of life. He had been [...]

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Mahmut Esat Ozan
Turkish Forum Advisory Board member
Chairmen Editorial Board Turkish Forum
Country: United States of America
Anyone, who attended Galatasaray during the years of 1933 to l943 would remember Mahmut Abi as a little boy who loved movies, especially American movies, and who would very often sneak out of his dormitory at night and go to the [...]

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