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| Akbaba, 10 February 1930 |
On the same note as
my recent post, a second cartoon about the
evkaf -- the heading above the cartoon reads, "The evkaf, the last Asian institution in European Turkey, is being reformed." Below, the evkaf -- dressed in the baggy pants that today signal a more conspicuous piety -- tells the tailor, "Come on, I won't be able to be comfortable in this tight clothing." The tailor -- who's actually captioned as an 'expert' or 'specialist' -- replies, "You'll get used to it, my dear. Just look, how young, how beautiful you are!"
Comments
"We ejected the sultans and the şehzade from the country. But the Sultan’s hills, the heads of the Şehzade, are still living among us. Perhaps discarding those names of His Royal Majesty is more troublesome than discarding their bodies?"
It's actually kind of interesting to think about the present debate re: Pierre Loti in the same terms -- what's the legacy of the past? And how do the names of things play a part in all of that?