Yet--I don't know.

I do not quite believe in Islam becoming a back number.' 'Look at it in another way,' he went on.

'If it were Enver and Germany alone dragging Turkey into a European war for purposes that no Turk cared a rush about, we might expect to find the regular army obedient, and Constantinople.

But in the provinces, where Islam is strong, there would be trouble.

Many of us counted on that.