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Armenians during the First World War. I explained that at the relevanttime he vvas a divisional commander at Gallipoli and, military geniusthough he vvas, could scarcely have stopped doing his part in coping withthe British landings in order to organize a massacre in south-east Anatolia,över a thousand miles away. I don't know whether I succeeded inconvincing her.Another time I challenged a statement in an article in The TimesMagazine that Nicole Farhi's [Jewish] parents 'fled from Turkey toFrance in the early 1920s to escape the persecution of Atatürk.'It vvas in the early 1920s that Atatürk said in a speech at İzmir,'There are some loyal elements amongst us, in particular the Jevvs,who have east in their lot vvith the Turks... Because they have provedtheir loyalty to this nation and this country, they have lived tranquilliveshitherto and shall continue to live in tranquillity and vvellbeing.'Turkish Jevvs suffer from no legal disabilities and live asAtatürk promised they vvould. It was the Turks who gave saneturayto thousands of refugees from Nazi Germany, just as their ancestorshad done for the Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal in and after1492. Could vve be told the justifıcation for Ms Lovatt-Smih's extraordinarystatement?Needless to say, as usual no justifıcation vvas forthcoming.I have tvvo consolations. One is that vvhenever one of my letters hasbeen printed in a nevvspaper, many readers vvrite to me expressing theiragreement. The other is that if you talk to ordinary people vvho do notclaim to be experts on Turkey but have taken their family there on holiday,they ali teli you that they came home delighted vvith their experienceof the country and its people and are eager to visit it again. To ali thesegood souls, selâm olsun.786