THE EASTERN QUESTION "Perhaps one fact which lies at the root of all the actions of the Turks, small and great, is that they are by nature nomads.

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Hence it is that when the Turk retires from a country he leaves no more sign of himself than does a Tartar camp on the upland pastures where it has passed the summer."-- _Turkey in Europe_, by "Odysseus." The remark was once made that the Eastern Question was destined to perplex mankind up to the Day of Judgment.