Clemenceau on Turkish rule
George Clemenceau, a French statesman and Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920, one of the main architects of the Treaty of Versailles, famously said of Turkey (as quoted in Margaret Macmillan’s Paris 1919),
“There is no case to be found either in Europe or Asia or Africa in which the establishment of Turkish rule in any country has not been followed by a diminution of material prosperity, and a fall in the level of culture; nor is there any case to be found in which the withdrawal of Turkish rule has not been followed by a growth in material prosperity and a rise in the level of culture.
Neither among the Christians of Europe nor among the Moslems of Syria, Arabia and Africa, has the Turk done other than destroy wherever he has conquered.”
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