Word: moukbil
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...vigorous denial of the existence of polygamy and harems in Turkey and an explanation of the war and Armenian "massacre" questions were the main points brought out in a recent interview by Moukbil Kemal Bey, the well-known Turkish architect who is now in this country handling negotiations for a statue of Mustapha Kemal...
Regretting the misconceptions and misunderstandings that Americans apparently have in regard to Turkey, M. Moukbil expressed his hope that the students in the universities, and especially in Harvard, would try a little to understand the new Turkey...
...There are no harems in modern Turkey; there is no polygamy; all that has stopped with the coming of the republic. Divorce is free, with judgment, of course, and yet," said M. Moukbil, "there is less divorce than in America. Women have exactly the same rights as men, but it must be remembered that this is not the work of a mere law but is the culmination of a struggle started some fifty years ago under the old Ottoman Empire. The whole social order is completely changed." Asked how this new order is reconciled with the Mohammedan religion, M. Moukbil...
...defense of Turkey's policy in regard to the Armenians and the "massacres" M. Moukbil was particularly vehement...
...Moukbil Kemal Bey arrived, recently, in Manhattan to secure sketches and designs for the Mustafa Kemal statue. Naturally he journeyed to Stamford, Conn., and there consulted the famed U. S. sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, and received from him a sketch which, with others, he will take back to Turkey for approval. The definite acceptance of any plan will not be made for the present; but there is every prospect, it was said, of a $20,000 statue of the great Mustafa, "made in America," adorning the city of Angora...