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Parliamentary Exchange
Listen to what transpired in the Ottoman Parliament on 18 June (1 July) 1914, as the Ottoman Greek MPs –esp. Em. Emmanuelidi– called upon Talaat Pasha to explain himself and the persecutions in Phocaea and other coastal areas.
[The exchange is translated from the Ottoman Turkish and found in Dr. Emre Erol’s book “The Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia”]
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Eşref Kuşçubaşı
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