The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-02
UI0HIAN ENTERS STRONG APPEAL
 FOR TURK CAUSE
Halide Edih Tells Some In. teresting Facts About
 Her Country.

ConstantinopIe, Dec. 2.-tBy The Associated Press)-There are only
 two sincere political movements in Turkey, one for American help, the
 other for an independent country
 which shoud be left alone, says Ha-
 lide Edib, Turkish woman novelist, poet and nationalist. All the rest
 are movements fed by foreign mon
 ey,'' she told the Associated Press
 cores spondent today.
 Small, handsome, a brilliant con- versationaIist and speaker. Halide Edib, Q fiery advocate for a new and . better Turkey, is the best known i woman of her country. A graduate of Robert College for Girls, an American institution, she speaks Eng i fish well and has used it since the armistice to try to convert Ameri-- cans here to her hopes. In the war i she worked with her husband, a phy- stcian, in the Red Crescent of Turk i ish Red Cross. One of her novels, New Turania", a Turkish ''Look.ng Forward'', has greatly moved her people by it's patriotic appeal. T don't think any nation in Europe except perhaps Belgium would be dis interested enough. or would be per mitJeG by the other powers. to take over Lhe work that must be done here, she said. 50 we have orga nized an American ropaganda which { is evident tr all parts of the old en- pire. Even the hUnD1est people re- alize the truth of our contentious. and for that reason it has been easy to persuade them to favor an Ameri- l can control.
 The Americans haven't encour- aged Us. and other nations have dis l coura ged us, either by deP0Ttatio1s : or censorship of cur press. We can't send any one 10 America, because the i arrnistice prevents Us from rraveling. 1 Moustapha Renal Pasha. who is an ! honest, sincere patriot, believes as ! We do.
 ! What Turkey needs is peace, mod ] ern agricultural deyeIopments, as our soil is very rich, territorial integrity. ! wherein there are equal rights to l Nosiems and Christians, and educa- i tioL. We need a uniform school sys- ! tenn. There is a vast desire for edu- 1 cation and many parents make many ! sacrifices while children educate i themselves rather than go unedu- 1 cated.
 ''The woman in Turkey is much 1 more emanica pted than is believed i abroad. and her education is part ot 1 our program. It is true that in the ] past we have ourselves been inf1u- ! enccd by the Persian influence which
 took from our women their old free dom. It must be remembered that all our women are not to he judged i by those Of the city. who don't count for much Tn the country our women ] have all the famiIy. respons biIities, l they til the soil, they care for the . shiIdren, while the role of the man
 Is more that of the soldier.
 ''WOmen n Turkey have their vani- ties, too, just like women elsewhere. . h my novel h which I p1ccurei Turkey as she should be. I pIanne | new costume without the veil
 somewhat like that of the Quaker
 ess, but after 9 time 1t was no longer
 worn because l. wasn't found be- coming.
 Much has been said of the Pan
 IsIamic and Pan-Turanian move. rnents. Politically I am for neither.
 The first refers to religious union
 and the second to the racial union
 of peoples inhabiting north Africa
 and Asia. These peoples are loosely,
 Turks, Arabs, Tartars and kurds
 When the new Turk idea started the old imperilliats objected that by 1t
 we would lose Arabia and Syria We
 appear to have done So by the war.
 I believe in q cultural union of these
 peoples, however, and continuance
 of our economic relation with Arabia which were always close and natural '7The national idea is to maintain , the integrity of the Ottoman Turks who are people who change neither religion nor other ideas. and for that reason have always been the cham pion Of the religion of NTOhammed We want also 10 see an Independent Armenia. as we believe the later vii
 never rest until they have it. We want fer our boundaries the lines ot the arniscice, that is Tnrace, Asis
 Minor, tu the Russian frontier. thent 2 to the trading center of Bagdad
 which is about one half Turkish
 though t is also Inhabited by Per.
 sians, Nurds and Arabs and thence tc . he Mediterranean
 ''Inside of this territory we wan Y, Greeks, Arme nians or. any one, st
 long as they do not agitate politi
 caIy. There should be no religion! T dtstinctt5ns- we should abolish tn, 7 old courts and have them uniform { We should take our patriarch out o | OUT political cabinet and let hin 1 merely be head Of our church sys
 tenn. gTne Sultan should continue il 9 his dual capaoity as Sultan. poIitf O caly, and as CaIiDh, reIigiously. n With rowing economic prosper @ ity Turkey would become a bette n country but to accomplish what "
 need we can't go alone. We realiz e that we must have outside hell q which would be respected by ou ] people and the Christians. and whic1 a in reforming us could bear any blam e for the reforms. Coming from an un prediuiced source they would be ac e ceptad.
 | ''The Sultan has been frightene e by tha nationalist movement and D e the suggestion that Americans wouI
 make us a republic. eliminating hi1
 politically. We are not so pro-Bo,
 shevik as to wish to overthrow hin
 and for many years it would not b 9 attempted.
 n Tt is believed the British war 'l Turkey because they have man IT AIoslem subjects once independer Il who looked to the CaIiph here. an