TURKEY'S INFIDEL RULERS.
With the landing on the Gallipoli peninsula of an Allied army (remarks a Daily Chronicle writer) the reflective Turk is probably thinking with regret of the great day« of the Turkish Empire of the sixteenth and the seventeenth century. It is a curious fact thati tho greatness of that empire and the decay of the present is due to the same cause — the control of its military machine by the alien races. Just as the German today is leading the Turk to ruin, the stranger of other days led him to glory. During the great age no Turk was permitted to direct armies or govern. Future rulers were taken as boys from Christian families in Europe, made slaves, and taught the art of government with Teutonic thoroughness. Sons of these lordly slaves were not permitted to inherit the functions of their fathers. Fresh slaves were bought. As soon, however, as this system, of ruling Turkey began io decay, Turkey also decayed. The reversion to the earlier system has now only a pathetic interest.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 18
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