2023-08-30 06:33:35
Atatürk is said to have been thrilled when he visited the new German embassy in Ankara for the first time in February 1925. “The President examined every room very carefully and kept saying how much he liked everything,” wrote the German Legation Counselor at the time to Ambassador Rudolf Nadolny.
Friederike Böge
Political correspondent for Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan based in Ankara.
Mustafa Kemal Pasha simply drove up without prior notification. According to the letter, which can be viewed in the political archive of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, he was particularly impressed by the cleanliness of the bathroom. At the end of the visit, the founder of the Republic of Turkey declared that he also wanted to have a “demountable house” built for himself. He asked the Germans to provide him with factory catalogs from the Upper Lusatia manufacturer.
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