The Unknown Turks

İn 1983, While Living İn Washington, D.C., İ Received A Telephone Call From A Former Student Named Ugur Dogan, Who Was Then Serving As A Young Diplomat At The Turkish Embassy. He Told Me That He Had Recently Met A Most İnteresting Man, Who Not Only Had Traveled To Ankara And İnterviewed Mustafa Kemal Pasa [Atatürk] İn 1921, But Had Also Written An Unpublished Manuscript About The Seven Weeks He Spent İn Anatolia During The Winter Of That Year. This Was Clarence K. Streit, Who Was One Of The Very First Foreign Journalists To Visit Ankara At The Height Of The Turkish War Of İndependence, And The First Foreign Correspondent To Personally İnterview Mustafa Kemal Pasa After He Was Elected President Of The Grand National Assembly.Streit’S Connection To Turkey Did Not End With His 1921 Visit. At The End Of The Following Year He Covered The Lausanne Treaty Negotiations İn Switzerland, After Which He Returned To İstnabul As The Public Ledger’S Correspondent For The Near East And The Balkans, A Position He Held For The Next Two Years.(Tanitim Bülteninden)