1. MEETING WITH HIS MAJESTY'S AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY. SIR HUGHE KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN said that the Turkish character was both determined and obstinate. In general, Turkey had friendly feelings towards Britain and realised that if we went down she would go down also. Some eighty per cent of the population of the country was made up of illiterate peasants who were apathetic as regards the war. It was a mistake to assume that Mohammedanism was dead in Turkey. While the policy of Ataturk's regime had been anti-Clerical and Islam was "disestablished" there had since Kemal's death been a slight revival of religion in Turkey.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Germany Great Britain Greece Iraq Italy Russia Turkey
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/90/126
- Document Types
- Summary
- File Reference
- CAB 81/90
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0090.126
- Keywords
- Intelligence Reports Economic Intelligence Political Intelligence Diplomatic Intelligence Operation Jubilee Operation Torch Security British Intelligence Organisation Axis Strategy Dieppe Raid Invasion Of French North Africa
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Joint Intelligence Staff Ministry of Economic Warfare Secret Intelligence Service Security Service United Nations Inter-Services Security Board
- Pages
- 6
- Persons Discussed
- Anthony Buzzard Denis Capel-Dunn Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Francis Davidson Thomas Haddon Francis Inglis Stewart Menzies Edmund Rushbrooke Geoffrey Vickers
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Surveillance International Relations Military Intelligence
