ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how the new Ankara was viewed from Britain, focusing in particular on travel accounts and reports published in the first two decades of the Turkish Republic. It focuses on the rise of New Turkey and its capital city. In the autumn of 1922, after the armistice in the Greco-Turkish War, the English writer and journalist Grace Ellison travelled to Ankara in a bid to foster a new friendship between Britain and Turkey. This commentary reflected the animosity towards Turkey that still prevailed in Britain, and which Ellison sought to countervail through her writings. The stream of foreign visitors that poured in through the first decade-and-a-half of the Republic waned significantly at the end of the 1930s. While British commentators continued to depict Ankara as a place fraught with contradictions, by the 1930s the animus that characterized the press reports of the early Republican years had largely dissolved.
