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and Kemal Atatürk. It was then that king Alexander had paid an offıcialvisit to Turkey and the Yugoslav press reported of the heartly welcomehe had been given in istanbul.Personal friendship and mutual respect of the two statesmen immenselyhelped develop friendship and cooperation between Yugoslaviaand Turkey. The Turkish public and particularly Mr. Kemal Atatürk acceptedthe news of king Alexander's assassination in Marseillos in 1934with genuine sorrow and sympathy with the Yugoslav people in theirgrief. In the telegram he had sent to Prince Paul to commemorate the lateYugoslav king, Gazi Mustafa Kemal expressed, "his delight to have thehonour of having been his sincere friend and truthful brother" 14 .The death of Yugoslavia's king didn't affect close political, economicand cultural relations between the Turks and the Serbs. Not only thatthey were described with affinity by the press, but they were discussed onpolitical debates and sessions in offıcial institutions. During the sessionof the Yugoslav Senate held on July 9, 1934, Uros Kurulj, Ph.D., had givenan addres on the Balkan Treaty and the Convention with Turkey. Onthat occasion Mr. Kruulj, Ph.D. said: "Thanks to the great reformer andhero Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the modern national Republic of Turkeyhas become a phenomenon worth to be admired and followed as an example.Altogether with the other states of the same views, it is going to playanother historical part. It's no wonder the Republic of Turkey and theKingdom of Yugoslavia have come to the same track since we are connectednot only by identical interests but also by identical opinions andviews on modern political relations" 15 .It is difficult to make the right choiece among such a variety of interestingeliteratüre. One of the most interesting pieces is certainly a specialissue of the illustrated journal "Sunday" from May 19, 1935. It was titled"The New Turkey" and had the image of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk printedon the covers 16 . Most of articles were written owing to Mrs. Anita Delijanic,nicknamed Mirit and resulted from personal experience and contactswith her respectable contemporaries of the Turkish cultural and publiclife, like Mr. Rushdi Aras, Shukri Kaja, Hajdar Aktaja and others. Thejournal was enriched by many illustrations and texts that described almostali aspects of Turkish reality of that period; therefore, it is an exceptionallyreliable and interesting guide through Turkey that could have beenmade solely by a woman with sharp look and keen mind. Mustafa Shait'spoem "Waterfall" and three short stories by Shirin Ajdin and Faik Rıfkı14. Hadzi-Todor Dimitrijevic, Spomenica o tragicnoj sınrti viteskog kralja Aleksandra IUjedinitelja, (The memary oftragie death of our brightly King Alexander I, the Unijier).15. Ures Kralj, Senatski govori, (The Senate Addresses), Belgrade 1934, 50.16. "Ilustrovani list NEDELJA ", (SUNDAY, illustrated weekly), god. XVI, br. 428, Belgrade19.5.1935.188