"Istanbul steps up campaign to be selected culture capital of Europe in 2010
Friday, March 3, 2006
European Council to decide in March
Candidacy comes at sensitive time in East-West relations
MICHAEL KUSER
ISTANBUL - Turkish Daily News
When the last Ottoman ruler, Sultan Mehmet VI, slipped out of Istanbul on Nov. 17, 1922, the city had already lost its status as an imperial capital, for the empire was dead. Indeed, the sultan also had lost his title, for the Grand National Assembly on the first of the month had voted unanimously to abolish the monarchy."
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