Ryan Gingeras - The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

. Kalusd Srmenyan (seated on the left).. Hseyin Fehmi.. A procession in Merzifon, northern Anatolia, to celebrate the opening of the Ottoman parliament in December 1908.. Izmir/Smyrna, c.1922.. Galata Bridge in central Istanbul, October 1922.. Interior Minister Talat Pasha (center) delivering a celebratory address on Ottoman Independence Day.. Sultan Mehmed VI Vahideddin.. Ships of the Allied fleet firing a salute in the Bosphorus.. Damad Ferid Pasha (front row, fourth from the right) leading the Ottoman peace delegation in Paris, 1919. Tevfik Pasha, in the white waistcoat, stands beside him.. Local Armenians and French African troops welcome General Henri Gouraud to Mersin.. British troops marching through the streets of Istanbul.. A protest meeting in Sultanahmet Square, central Istanbul, 1919.. Mustafa Kemal in the study of his Ankara home in 1921.. An open session of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, February 1921.. A view of Ankara, late 1922.. Nationalist fighters in Antep.. Armenian women identified as pro-Greek guerrillas in Kirmasti (modern Mustafakemalpaa), near Bursa.. Muslim Indian migrants (or muhajirun) marching towards Afghanistan in protest at British treatment of the Ottoman caliph.. Ahmet Anzavur.. An advertisement for the American film Ravished Armenia (1919). Based on the memoir of a survivor from eastern Anatolia, the film was never released and all copies have since been lost.. A village in flames during the Greek rout from western Anatolia, September 1922.. Masses of refugees fleeing a burning Smyrna, September 1922.. Refugees from western Anatolia aided by the American Red Cross.. Women inspecting the ruins of the Cihanolu mosque in Aydn.. Nationalist troops parade through Istanbul, November 1922.. Abdlmecid II proceeds to the ceremony to install him as caliph, November 1922.. Mehmed VI arrives in exile in Malta, November 1922.. The celebration of the fourth anniversary of the liberation of Izmir, September 1926.. A cartoon from the satirical Turkish newspaper Akbaba, 30 October 1924. On the left, the infant Turkish Republic suckles on the breast of the nation. On the right, the Ottoman sultan-caliph strangles a cat symbolizing the Turkish nation as he drains his mother Anatolia dry.. Desire (Emel) bears the coat of arms of the Ottoman royal family as she brandishes the scarlet flag which has served as the standard of both the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.

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