The Private Life of the Sultan of Turkey
Publisher: D. Appleton
Published: 1902
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Description: The author was the son of an official within Abdul Hamid's court and a journalist. The book is an attack on the personality of the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II. He is portrayed as paranoid, violent, promiscuous, a hard task master, and so forth. The lack of dates for incidents or citations for sources does not allow the text to be easily verified.