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Ankara: TTK: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2019. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xxxii], 640 p., b/w ills. Hâtirat, 1876-1958. Memoirs of an Army Officer and Turkish diplomat in Paris during Vichy time. Behiç Erkin was a Turkish career officer, first director (1920-1926) of the Turkish State Railways, nationalized under his auspices, statesman and diplomat of the Turkish Republic, who helped save almost 20,000 ethnic Jews in France during World War II. He was Minister of Public Works, 1926-1928, and deputy for three terms; and an ambassador. He served as Turkey's ambassador to Budapest between 1928-1939, and to Paris and Vichy between August 1939-August 1943. As Turkish ambassador in France under the German Occupation after June 1940, Erkin used the power of his office and nation's neutrality to save Jews who could document a Turkish connection, however slight, from the Holocaust. Other…
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- Title H�tirat 1876-1958
- Author Erkin, Behic
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- Publisher T�rk Tarih Kurumu
- ISBN 9789751623171
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Ankara: TTK: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2010. 1st Edition . Dust jacket. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xxxii], 640 p., b/w ills. Hâtirat, 1876-1958. Memoirs of an Army Officer and Turkish diplomat in Paris during Vichy time. Behiç Erkin was a Turkish career officer, first director (1920-1926) of the Turkish State Railways, nationalized under his auspices, statesman and diplomat of the Turkish Republic, who helped save almost 20,000 ethnic Jews in France during World War II. He was Minister of Public Works, 1926-1928, and deputy for three terms; and an ambassador. He served as Turkey's ambassador to Budapest between 1928-1939, and to Paris and Vichy between August 1939-August 1943. As Turkish ambassador in France under the German Occupation after June 1940, Erkin used the power of his office and nation's neutrality to save Jews who could document a Turkish connection, however slight, from the…
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