A Lost Treasure...
One of the most tragic events to occur in Türkiye after the proclamation of the Republic happened in 1931, when around 30 to 50 tons of valuable documents written in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian were sold to Bulgaria to be used as “paper pulp.” The details of this incident are filled with absurdities and almost unbelievable negligence: The archive, containing military, financial, political, legal, and literary documents from various far-flung regions once under the Ottoman Empire’s rule,