Return to Smyrna 2 – İttihat ve Terakki

The political expression of the Young Turk movement — which marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and laid the foundations of the modern Turkish state. A journey through time, into a Turkey unknown and enthralling, whose truth holds the reader spellbound. A red thread — the single clue to an unsolved murder — binds Turks and Greeks on a path of unanswered questions and fateful revelations. Why do the features of the Turkish shadow-puppeteer İkiz Menekşeli and the Greek journalist Paris Pileidis so resemble each other? The search for the truth sets out from present-day Smyrna and reaches back to the years that led to the Balkan Wars, to acts of heroism and to genocides. Turks, Armenians and Greeks each lay claim to what they believe is theirs. A gripping journey from Paris to Tripoli in Libya, from Piraeus to Erzurum, from Constantinople to a Salonica in revolt. Love affairs, intrigues, conspiracies drowned in blood. Historical figures come alive with their passions and their torments: Mustafa Kemal, Sultan Abdul Hamid, the liberal prince Sabahaddin, Chrysostomos, Metropolitan of Smyrna, and the high priestess of dance, Isadora Duncan.

The odyssey of two families. Light cast on the soul of two peoples. A novelistic epic, the second part of the trilogy RETURN TO SMYRNA.