Red Crescent

“You possibly can simply notice that beneath these circumstances there’s little or no social life. Apart from, the work undertaken is simply too strenuous, the folks listed here are an excessive amount of occupied with their duties and actually in earnest about conducting them in addition to they’ll to bask in social life. Moreover there are only a few representatives of the truthful intercourse in Angora, and social life with out girls just isn’t attainable. A lot of the girls listed here are villagers or else nurses of the Pink Crescent, Turkish reduction staff and girls in any other case occupied in aiding their husbands, fathers or brothers within the patriotic job they’ve undertaken.

There are not any girls of leisure, no hostess who has sufficient time to entertain. It may be in truth mentioned that each Turkish girl now in Angora is slightly Joan of Arc. And the quarters being so insufficient a lot of the girls stay collectively and sleep collectively simply as their males are obliged to stay and sleep collectively. Everybody right here works grimly with a particular goal and faces the realities confronting the cyclopean work of recreating a Nation.

“The shortage of social intercourse doesn’t nonetheless detract from the curiosity of the place. The sight of the streets alone is most fascinating and edifying. Everyone seems to be so busy and there are such a lot of folks right here that it’s hardly attainable to stroll leisurely within the streets throughout the rush hours of the day. One is taken up and carried by the gang. And the gang is essentially the most diversified and picturesque that one can see in anywhere, not even barring the proverbial bridge in Constantinople. You see, volunteers of all types have rushed right here not solely from Anatolia, however from each Turkish nation, each Turkish village of the world and even from essentially the most diversified Muslim international locations of Asia and Africa. It’s a actual Babel, however of costumes not of languages: each one speaks Turkish.

Azerbeidjanian and Caucasian Turks

Turkish Anatolian peasants, with saggy trousers, broad blue belts and skinny turbans over their fez, fraternize with Tartars and Kirghiz of Turkestan. Azerbeidjanian and Caucasian Turks, with tightfitting black coats and large black astrakan kolpaks on their heads   runaways from Bolshevik Russia   are discussing the rules of actual democracy as utilized to Nationalist Turkey and evaluating them with the socalled democracy of Soviet lands. Muslim Chinamen and Hindoos are speaking over the way forward for Turkey and Islam. All of the nations of Asia intermingle right here and most of them have official missions in Angora: Embassies from Afghanistan, Beluchistan, Bokhara, Khiva and from the completely different new Republics of Turkestan, duly accredited representatives from Persia and Azerbeidjan.

The quota from Africa can also be very massive and whereas there are not any diplomatic missions from African international locations for the straightforward motive that each one African international locations are colonies 1 many are the Fellahs from Egypt, the Algerians and Moroccans and even the Muslim negroes of North Africa who will be seen within the streets.