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CHAPTER

I. BACK TO THE HAREM 1

II. “TIME’S FOLDED WINGS” 9

III. BACKGROUND AND ATMOSPHERE 19

IV. THE IMPERIAL HAREM--A RECEPTION BY THE SULTAN 33

V. THE ANGEL OF DEATH 50

VI. CHAMPIONS OF WOMEN--THE MEN WHO LEAD 64

VII. PASSIONATE WOMEN PATRIOTS--A MASS MEETING 79

VIII. A TURKISH MOTHER 91

IX. WOMEN WRITERS OF TURKEY 104

X. THE PROPHET AND POLYGAMY 119

XI. THE MAN WITH TWO WIVES 128

XII. FARTHER AFIELD--THE PRIMITIVE PEOPLE 137

XIII. THE PULSE OF THE NATION 151

XIV. FORBIDDEN GROUND--THE HOLY TOMB 162

XV. ON THE SHORES OF THE UPPER BOSPHORUS 170

XVI. MORE ABOUT HAREM LIFE ON THE BOSPHORUS 180

XVII. INCONSISTENCIES ON THE SHORES OF THE BOSPHORUS 187

XVIII. ONLOOKERS ONLY 195

AFTER-WORDS 202

INDEX 213

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE AUTHOR IN TURKISH COSTUME _Frontispiece_

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HALIDÉ HANOUM, THE BEST KNOWN OF TURKISH WOMEN
WRITERS AND A LEADER OF THE WOMAN’S MOVEMENT 18

MISS “CHOCOLATE” 24

AN ENGLISHWOMAN WEARING A YASHMAK 34

H. E. GENERAL DJÉMAL PASHA, MARINE MINISTER,
THE FEMINIST MINISTER 82

H. E. TALAAT BEY, MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR,
A SUPPORTER OF THE WOMAN’S MOVEMENT 82

A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE NEW TURKISH WOMAN’S PAPER,
_KADINLAR DUNYASSI_ (“THE WOMEN’S WORLD”) 114

DANCING CLASS AT THE GIRLS’ SCHOOL, BROUSSA 120

THE GREEN MOSQUE AT BROUSSA 124

BROUSSA 140

THE FOOTBALL TEAM OF THE BROUSSA LYCÉE 142

OPENING OF THE BELGIAN SCHOOL OF ARTS AND
CRAFTS, STAMBOUL 160

TURKISH LADIES IN THE COUNTRY WITH THEIR
EUROPEAN GOVERNESSES 166