ABSTRACT
Culture and Traditions; Economic Development and Trade; Istanbul; Language; Literature and Writing; Ottoman Empire and Turkey; Religion; Society; Technology and Inventions; Tools and Weapons.
BACKGROUND In 1977, newly elected U.S. president Jimmy Carter made the Middle Eastern peace process a priority of his administration. Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat jump-started the peace process when he became the first Arab leader to visit Israel in November 1977. While in Israel, Sadat addressed the Israeli parliament, known as the Knesset, on peace, territories occupied by Israel, and the Palestinian issue. Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin saw reasons to engage in talks with Egypt alone, instead of with a larger Arab delegation. In September 1978, Carter called the two foreign leaders to meet with
him at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland.
