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1 HIME 2002: History of the Modern Middle East Professor Elizabeth F. Thompson Lecture 18

2 Reza Shah and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

3 Mustafa Kemal greets Halide Edip at Gebze train station, April 1920

4 Ankara and Tehran at end of Ataturk and Reza Shah’s reigns

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6 Turkey

7 Ismet Inonu, President of Turkey, 1938-50

8 Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet and communist You love your country as the nearest, most precious thing to you. But one day, for example, they may endorse it over to America, and you, too, with your great freedom- you have the freedom to become an air-base. You may proclaim that one must live not as a tool, a number or a link but as a human being- then at once they handcuff your wrists. From “A Sad State of Freedom”

9 Adnan Menderes and Celal Bayar, co-founders of Demokrat Party (1946)

10 “Enough! Let the Nation speak!” Demokrat Party poster, 1950

11 Menderes at Demokrat Party rally

12 Celal Bayar, elected president of Turkey, 1950

13 Halide Edib, elected to parliament, 1950

14 Ahmet Emin Yalman

15 Turkish border patrol, 1951 at Kars, near Soviet border

16 Anti-Greek riots in Istanbul, 1955

17 May 1960 coup: Arrest and execution of Menderes

18 Iran

19 Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941

20 Mohammad Mossadeq, 1919

21 Majles (Parliament) in Tehran, 1950s

22 Abadan oil refinery, early 1950s

23 Demonstration to support oil nationalization Tehran, early 1950s

24 Mohammad Mossadeq

25 Pro-Mossadeq Demonstration

26 Iranian coup, 1953

27 Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.

28 Soldiers Surround Iranian Parliament, August 1953

29 Shah returns to Iran, 1953

30 Coronation of Shah, 1967


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