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Two Women and the End of the Ottoman Empire

First in a series of books that feature strong, independent, sometimes unconventional women during Women History Month.

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Destination: Istanbul and Anatolia Turkey (Early 20th Century)

Book: The Dervish by Frances Kazan (NEW February, 2013)

Frances Kazan bases her historical novel on a fairly well-known period of history–post World War I, but it concerns Turkey–whose history is not widely known in the West.  Because Kazan has devoted years to the study of Turkish history, and has written an academic book about Halide Edip, a woman who played a key role in Turkey’s Nationalism movement, the reader will learn the actual details of the struggles between Allied powers, Greeks and Turks as modern Turkey took shape and the Ottoman Empire ended. Continue reading Two Women and the End of the Ottoman Empire