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Event Details:

• Date: April 3, 2024
• Time: 1:30 PM
• Location: Museum of World Treasures [get directions]

Cost:

• Museum Members: Free
• Non-Members: $4 per person plus tax

Attending Information:

• Open to all ages
• No need to register; simply walk in!
• Light refreshments provided.

this month's talk - Fighting Over the Peace Treaty

How France and Turkey Went to War Over Ending World War I

The French government’s attempt to colonize southern Turkey after World War I quickly ran into trouble. Faced with Turkish resistance to colonial rule, French intelligence services denied they faced indigenous anticolonial movement and instead blamed resistance on the German and Russian Bolshevik governments manipulating Mustafa Kemal and the Turkish Nationalists.

In January 1920 Turkish Nationalists attacked French troops occupying what is now southern Turkey, beginning a war neither side wanted and both struggled to end. Faced with resistance to colonial rule, French intelligence services denied they faced an indigenous anticolonial movement and instead blamed resistance on the German and Russian Bolshevik governments manipulating Mustafa Kemal and the Turkish Nationalists. Over the course of two years, French and leaders eventually found a formula to make peace by twisting the logic of pro-escalation intelligence reports to buttress their policy of conciliation.

About the Speaker - Dr. Andrew Orr

Dr. Andrew Orr is a global military historian of the modern era. He received his B.A. from Claremont Mckenna College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His work focuses on the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries and explores identity and conflict, civil-military relations, gender and conflict, and the politics of war with an emphasis on France and the United States. His books have explored the experiences of women in the French Army, the Franco-Turkish War of 1919-1921, and Orientalism’s effect on contemporary American and European views of Islam and the Middle East. Dr. Orr has also published on intelligence history, imperialism, civil-military relations, the history of French Communist Party, and contemporary U.S. and European foreign and defense policy. His current projects include a book on the 1919 Black Sea Mutiny and a book on the evolution of military identity.

Dr. Orr accepts graduate students in European History, European and American Military History, and Security Studies.

What are Senior Wednesdays?

Senior Wednesdays are informational and entertaining sessions, designed for active seniors and offered by a collaboration of Wichita institutions.

Learn About Other Senior Wednesdays Events

Museum of World Treasures is a proud to host the afternoon Senior Wednesday on the first Wednesday of every month.