New Britain herald., 1919-12-19
ONLY TWO SINCERE
 PARTIES IN TURKEY
Woman Novelist <DisCusSeS Poi- tiCal Situation in Ottoman Empire

Constantinople, Dec. 19.-There are only two sincere political movements in Turkey-one for American help, thc other for an independent countrS Which should be left alone, sa1S Iialide Ldib, Turkish woman move list, poet and nationalist.
 AM the rest arc movements Ied .! foreign moncy,' she told The -N9oo ciated Press correspondent.
 Small. handsome. brilliant con
 gcrsationalst and speaker llai'oe Edib. a fiery advocate for a new ahu better Turkey. is the best khoWh woman of her country graduate Of Robert College for Girls, an Amer ican institution she speaks EhSllSH well and has used it since the arm1- stice 10 try to convert Americans here to her hopes. In the war shc Worked with her husband. physician, in tho Tcd Crescent, or Turkish Rcd Cross, One of hcr novels, i'NeW, Turania," 8 Turkish "LooNinG Forward" has greatly moved her people by it's pa triotic appe2l
 "I don't think any nation in Europe except perhaps Belgium, Would be dis.ntercstcd enough. or would De permitted by tho othc" powers. to take over the work that laust be dono here,' She said. 't5p we have organized an American prop aganda which is evident in all parts of the old empire. ENcn the hum blest people realize the truth Of our contentious and for that reason it has been easy to persuade them to favor an American control.
 "The Americans haven't encour- aged us, and other nations have dis 1eouraged us, either by deportaton5 or censorship of our press. We can't send anyrne to America because the aylnistice prevents us from travelling. Moustapho. FIemal pasl1a, who is an honest, sincere patriot, believes as WIG do.
 What Turkey needs is peace, modern agricultural development -(as our soil is very rich). territorial in- tegrity wherein there arc equal rights 10 Moslems and Christians, and edn- cation. sWe need a uniform school system. There is a vast desire 10" education and many parents mako many sacrifices while children edu- rate theSnselves rather than to let .hem go uneducated.
 4"The woman in Turkey is more pated than is believed abroad, and heE cducation is part of our pro gram 1t is true that4in the past we have ourselves been influenced by the Pcrsian influence which took from 5iar wof1ion their oldT freedom. If aust ba gem enaherel 5tnat all of olr Women arc not to be judged by those of the city wAoadon't count for much. Tn the country our women have all Inc falnily responsibilities: they tll he soil; they care for the children, while tJge role fof tIe%rman is more that Of the soldier.
 .k t'Wonlen in Turkey have their van ,fties, too just like women elsewhere. tn my novel, in which F. Ispictured Tu"- key as she should be.& I planned q aew costume without file veil some what like that of the Qual>eress, but After a time it was no. longer worn Because it wasn't foultd becoming.
 Much has been said. of the Pan- FsIanaic and pan-Ttrranian moye- ments Politically I ani for neither. The first t,refera to religious union and tlle second to the racial union of peo- plec inha5iting North Africa anA Asia These peopea.s are, loosely. iT'urks Arabs, Tartars and kuras. When the now Turk idea started, the old imperialists objected that by ii We -,would los4 Arabia and Syria. We ap" pear toal32Eo done so by the war. believe in q cultural union of these .neoples, however, and a continuance of our economic relations with