Memories of a Turkish Statesman, 1913-1919

MY personal participation in general politics in the Ottoman Empire begins with the coup d'état of January 23, 1913. On the evening of that day I left the headquarters of the Lines of Communication Inspectorate and went to the Sublime Porte, to which a great crowd was flocking at the time. At that moment Mahmud Shefket Pasha, who had been appointed Grand Vizier a few hours before, returned from the Imperial Palace and met me at the entrance to the Grand Vizier's palace. He had hardly seen me bef