TURKISH SCHOOLGIRL
An autographed photograph of Kemal Ataturk in a silver frame stands on the mantelpiece of a schoolgirl's bedroom in Hampstead, states a London writer.
Zehr Aylin, sixteen-year-old adopted daughter of Turkey's childless ruler, treasures. the picture as her dearest possession. It is also a spur to her in the task for which she has come to England.
Zehra, way from her father's palace for the first time, has become one of a family of girls at St. .Helen's finishing school. She is there, by Kemal Ataturk's desire, to learn English and to take her examinations and go to Oxford.
She is tiny and shrinking, but the dark eyes in her pale face are burning with life and intellect.
"I go about London as much as I can," she said. "It is not very different from Turkey. The girls there have just the same freedom as they have here since my father changed things. They play games, and sometimes they are better than the boys."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 20, 24 January 1936, Page 15
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166TURKISH SCHOOLGIRL Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 20, 24 January 1936, Page 15
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