Part 2:
The Embassies
by Patricia Daunt The French Embassy in Ankara
Monumental modernism The British Embassy in Ankara
A delightfully English house The Italian Embassy in Ankara
Easy grandeur behind a formal façade Also featured:
The Belgian, Russian, Polish, Austrian, German, Hungarian and Swiss embassies. Part 3:
Diplomacy in Ankara Birth of a Nation
by Norman Stone Ankara, when it became Turkey's capital was a very sleepy and provincial place, and it was chosen because it was on the way to somewhere else. It had a railway station, one of the stopovers of the German-planned Berlin-Baghdad line, and its buffet served as the first French embassy. However, when the first Excellency put his head out of the swing doors, he contemplated a marsh, with some ruins on a hill, and when the First British Excellency arrived, to have dinner with the President, he would have to pick his white-tied way through snow-drifts, being careful to avoid being eaten by a wolf or a Turkish feminist.... | 
