Editing Bey (section)

==Turkish beys==
[[Lucy Mary Jane Garnett]] wrote in the 1904 work ''Turkish Life in Town and Country'' that "distinguished persons and their sons" as well as "high government officials" could become ''bey'', which was one of two "merely conventional designations as indefinite as our '[[Esquire]]' has come to be [in the United Kingdom]".<ref name=Garnettp5>[[Lucy Garnett|Garnett, Lucy Mary Jane]]. ''Turkish Life in Town and Country''. [[G. P. Putnam's Sons]], 1904. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=t5Q4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5 5].</ref>

The Republican Turkish authorities abolished the title circa the 1930s.<ref>Shaw, Stanford J. and Ezel Kural Shaw. ''History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey'' (Volume II). [[Cambridge University Press]], 27 May 1977. {{ISBN|0521291666}}, 9780521291668. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AIET_7ji7YAC&pg=PA386 386].</ref>

However, it is important to note that the title [[Bey]], [[Bey|Baig]] or [[Begum]], [[Begzada]] and [[Uç Bey]] are regarded as comparable to the European nobility with the title of [[Viscount]], while [[Sanjak-bey|Sancak-beys]] and [[Atabeg|Atabegs]] are considered to be of an equivalent rank to [[Earl|earls]] or [[Count|counts]] in the context of European nobility.<ref>Imperial, royal and noble ranks Wikipedia Page
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