and in the name of westernization abandon the tradition of Islam and even base your ideas on atheism, it is necessary and imperative for the security of the nation and the country that you give definite support to Islam and the truths of religion in the eastern provinces, which are the centre of four or five large nations. Of thousands of examples, I shall tell you the following one:

While in Van, I asked a patriotic Kurdish student of mine: "The Turks have performed great services. What do you think of them?" He replied: "I prefer a Muslim Turk to a Kurdish brother who is depraved. I am closer to him than to my own father. For the Turks serve the cause of belief wholeheartedly." Some time passed and that student (May God have mercy on him) entered a secular school in Istanbul while I was being held as a prisoner-of-war. I saw him when I returned; influenced by some racialist teachers there, in reaction he had taken another path — due to Kurdish nationalism. He said to me: "Now I prefer a depraved Kurd, or even an atheist one, to an upright Turk." Later I was able to save him after speaking to him on several occasions. He was persuaded that the Turks are the heroic army of the Islamic nation.

Deputies who asked the questions! There are close on five million Kurds in the east. There are nearly one hundred million Iranians and Indians. There are seventy million Arabs. There are forty million Caucasians. I wonder, which is more necessary for these brothers who are neighbours and brethren and in need of one another, the lesson from religion that my student received in the medrese in Van, or was his second state better, which casts those nations into chaos and considers no one apart from people of the same race and studies only the sciences of philosophy, which do not recognize Islamic brotherhood and ignore the Islamic sciences? I ask

After hearing this answer of mine, the deputies who were opposed to tradition and supported the idea of westernization in every respect rose and signed the bill, I shall not say their names. May God forgive them their faults; they are dead now.

Fourthly: The President has attached great importance to the Eastern University amid other pressing political matters and has performed the great service of passing a law specifically allotting it sixty million liras, which will be a source of pride for it. And giving the start to this Islamic University out of his feelings for his former profession of teaching, he has earned the gratitude of all the teachers of the east. It will be the cause of great honour for himself. His again placing under consideration this university — a foundation stone of universal peace in the Middle East and its main