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4 recaps tied to Turkey across 4 years and 3 decades. Reconstructed from contemporary coverage and public archives.

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The 1920s — 1 moment in Turkey.

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Six centuries of empire ended not with conquest, but with a pen.

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Kemal's nationalists torched the Ottoman order and built a modern state from the ashes.

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The Ottoman Empire's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians.

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A 21-year-old sultan's cannons ended a millennium of Byzantine defiance.