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O sons of Turks, history books narrate your past glorybut you added to it today a book vvell adornedYou removed from islam the sign of humiliationand put on it the gown of your honoryou raised its flag high amongst other nationsEven from far away, he vvho identifies to it feels ennobled...O Mustafa [the chosen] from the elite of his peopleyou, the rescuer of homelands from the grip of the enemiesO heroe of Turks, savior of their bloodby spilling the blood of those vvho attacked the homelandBe satisfied that you singly beared vvhatthe one vvith the crovvn could not bear, as he became shackled...From nothing, you raised army and established povver...After gruesom days, you gave back a smilling face to the Eastand made it forget ali the suffering it endured. 16Such vvere a fevv examples of the keen attention the young urbanelite paid to the unfolding transformation of early Kemalist Turkey. As amatter of fact, these young men often joined in their discussion commentson the tvvo experiments that seemed to be strong enough to stand up tocolonial occupation, that is the Rifıan and the Kemalist movements. Onemay vvonder vvhat vvas the reception made to the nevvs of the Kemalistmovement in the Rifıan region and especially among the leadership of theRifıan republic. For vvant of archival research, vve can only make peripheralinroads in the subject, relying mostly on journalistic and indirectdata. But before dealing vvith hovv Bin 'Abd al-Karim savv Kemal's experiment,let's try to find out hovv Turkish opinion, this time, follovvedBin 'Abd al-Karim's ovvn struggle for independence.2. Kish opinion and Bin 'Abd al-Karim' struggle for independenceThe Turkish interest in Moroccan affairs during the early decades ofthe XXth century vvas knovvn to North Africanists through an article by aFrench scholar, J. Deny, about the memories of some former member ofthe Turkish military mission in Morocco in 1909. 17 These memories vverepublished by the Turkish nevvspaper Vakit, on 8 June 1926. J. Deny'sconcern vvas to shovv hovv the Ottoman Empire in the Young Turks eraendeavored to establish a political infuence in Morocco. But in passing,he mentions that the publication of these memories vvas part of a presscampaign in favor of the Rifıan leader Muhammad Bin Abd al-Karim,16. al-Jazuli, op. cit. pp. 13-16.17. Deny, Jean, "Instructeursmilitaires turcs au Maroc sous Moulay Hafidh", in MemorialHenri Basset, Paris, 1928, pp. 221-227.648