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  • source= ATATÜRK: THE REBIRTH OF A NATION (1964, by Patrick KINROSS)

    sub-Chapter Eight: The Balkan Wars

    When Kemal reached Constantinople the First Balkan War was as good as over. All Rumeli was lost… Macedonia had gone. Mustafa Kemal’s mother and sister had fled from Salonika, abandoning their home… The Greek army marched into Salonika… The blue-and-white Greek flag waved from the roofs and the Windows... Kemal was deeply affected by the loss of the place where he had been spent most of his life… Troops from Anatolia and officers from Tripoli had strengthened the defences of the Chatalj lines before Constantinople, and the Bulgarians could advance no further… Kemal had been appointed director of operations with the army corps on the Gallipoli Peninsula, of which Fethi was chief of staff. It was their duty to defend the Dardanelles, hence Constantinople, against a Bulgarian break-through.

    *Patrick Kinross was a journalist. During World War II he was posted as intelligence officer to the Middle East and later served as press counselor at the British Embassy in Cairo. His travels through the Levant resulted in many books, including Within the Taurus and Europa Minor. Repeated visits to Turkey led to the publication of Atatürk in 1964.