SURNAMES IN TURKEY.
KEMAL DEMANDS I/AW FOR ALL IX TURKEY. Fourteen million Turks are in frantic search of a family name. Warning signals Lave been* up for some time that the Ghazi was contemplating a name reform, and now a commission has been established to frame a law. All the Fatimas, Mustaphas, Husseins and Hassans of Turkey, where family names have never existed, will be obliged to concoct a Turkish counterpart for Smith, Jones and Brown and tag it to their given names. The confusion arising from the fact that hundreds of thousands of women are all called by the same name of Fatima and hundreds of thousands of men by the same tag, Mustapha, has brought about this next Occidental reform of the champion reformer, Kemal. In prescribing family names for his Turks the Ghazi is one again flouting Koranic precept.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 105, 6 May 1929, Page 19
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