“Victory is on your side today, İsmet Pasha”
İsmet İnönü included, on the first page of the journal he kept in 1923, the laudatory poem written for him by Necati and Memduh, two entrepreneur brothers engaged in stationary business:
Two young Turkish and Muslim brothers humbly present to this great commander in chief the annual present of the commercial establishment they created as the only Turkish stationary business in İstanbul, a result of the hard work of fifteen years. Please kindly accept,
Respectfully yours,
Necati and Memduh Brothers
…
To İsmet Pasha
When the blood of the innocent was being spilled,
You drew your mighty sword
You were the illustrious commander of the army,
With your overwhelming determination,
You saved this beautiful land trampled by enemies
Victory is on your side today İsmet Pasha
