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...Mustafa Kemal told his Turks last December that they must forget God in the Arabic language (Allah), learn Him in Turkish (Tanri). Admitting the delicacy of renaming a 1300-year-old god, Kemal gave the muezzins a time allowance to learn the Koran in Turkish. Last week in pious Brusa, the "green* city," a muezzin halloed "Tanri Ulndur" from one of the minarets whence Brusans had heard "Allah Akbar" since the 14th Century. Raging at Kemal Pasha's god, they mobbed the muezzin, mobbed the police who came to save...
Quick to defend his new word for God, quicker to show new Turkey the fate of the oldfashioned, Kemal the Ghazi, "the Victorious One," pounced on Brusa, had 60 of the faithful arrested, ousted the Mufti (ecclesiastical judge) of the Ouglubjami mosque and decreed that henceforth God was Tanri...
Centre of the mumbo-jumbo belt is green Brusa where orthodoxy flared. It lies across the Sea of Marmora from Istanbul (Constantinople). It was the first Ottoman capital and might have been the capital of the Turkish Republic instead of white-cement, Babbittized Angora, had it not been too near...
From the village of Chalcedon, on the Asiatic shore, Gregory VII crossed over to Phanar in a caïque, accompanied by the Archbishops of Brusa and New Caesarea. Where the marble steps of the Ecumenical palace go down to the waters of the Bosphorus, he was met by the Metropolitans of Nicaea and of Cyzicus. Taking his arms they led him to the palace gate. The chief secretary of the Holy Synod read him the canon of election. The Archbishop of Caesarea gave him the pastoral staff...
...Brusa, Mustapha Kemal Pasha gave a party to celebrate his marriage. The guests assembled in a well-known French hotel celebrated for its wines; but there was nothing to drink-not until the proprietor discreetly mentioned to Kemal that the cellar was full. " Bring us up some of the best," said the host. " But, Sir, our cellar has been sealed by the gendarmes." " Ah! " said Mustapha, " tell them to unseal...