MODERNISING TURKEY.
HARD HATS V. FEZ.
RIOTS AND BLOODSHED.
CONSTANTINOPLE, December 10.
Public feeling against the bill which, forbids Turks to wear the fez is growing in intensity. There have been violent encounters, which have resulted in loss of life, in several Turkish towns.
The Government was forced to send a warship to Bizeh, on the Black Sea, where fire was opened on rioters, 20 of whom were killed.
At Erzerum the Armenians lynched several State officials because they were wearing hats.
Troops intervened. Many women were killed in the subsequent fighting.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
The fez is the red cap like a chopped off candle extinguisher, which Abdul has worn for centuries. The abolition is part of Kemal Pasha's method of upsetting the old order, ivhich includes permitting women unaccustomed license in the matter of attire, athletics, dancing, and so forth. Education is ncm.adays free and compulsory in Turkey, and the Turk is usually an enlightened person, who does not let his enlightenment handicap him from remaining a most formidable fighting man. Fez or hard hat, he hae been addicted to war since remote times, and plays a strong hand.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 293, 11 December 1925, Page 7
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