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medical education center in Ankara. He once made
a short visit to Sweden and showed a lively
interest in Swedish charitable institutions. The plans
were magnificent. The center was to comprise
30.000 beds and, at government expense, give
young medical students a six year education.
Following their graduation, they were obliged to work
for four years in the service of the government,
after which they were at liberty to look for other
employment or start practices of their own.
Nevertheless, all this was only a project, and people who knew
Turkey told us that the prospects for carrying it out
in the near future were extremely slim because of
the economic and political situation.
We had a similar experience when we visited
one of the government hospitals, which contained a
maternity ward and a tuberculosis research clinic
for people who lived in the district. The head
physician, an energetic and reliable person, told us that
eleven such hospitals had been built, and it was
their intention to build, during the next ten years,
a chain of at least a thousand such institutions all
over the country. Do you have the money for this ?
No, was the answer, not if armament expenditures
continue as high as in the past.
”But the defence forces must get their
appropriation,” emphasized the chief of the General Staff,
General Omurtak, when we met him. At the
outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Turkey
was already mobilized. Of the 18.000.000
inhabitants of the country, one million were called into
service, Mobilization was one hundred percent, it
remained so throughout the war and is still so to-
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