Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of the Ambassadors and Ministers accredited to the Turkish President, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, reside in their old embassies at Constantinople, although the new capital and the Turkish Parliament is at Angora (about 240 miles southeast of Constantinople, in the heart of Anatolia...
Last week, the Turks invited the Powers to transfer their embassies and legations to Angora, reminding them that facilities existed for the construction of new buildings...
...hundreds of years, Constantinople was the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Most Powers have costly embassies in that city which they cannot easily dispose of; and, if they do, it must involve large losses, owing to the depreciation in the value of real estate in the former Capital. Moreover, Angora presents other difficulties. Aside from the cost of erecting new diplomatic edifices-there are no buildings in Angora that could accommodate an embassy-communications to and from the capital are extremely bad and the climate is not so healthy as that on the banks of the Bosphorus...
News from Constantinople was more definite. It was published that the Grand National Assembly at Angora, the capital, had approved a grant of $44,000,000 for suppression of the Kurds...
...head this way and that, like a victim in the hands of a photographer, but never would he look in the lens. At last he gave up his evasive fight, admitted that the Kurds had revolted, under the leadership of Sheik Said, against the National Turkish Government at Angora. He further admitted that the revolt was serious. Martial law was proclaimed. Eight Turkish divisions (two-fifths of the entire Standing Army) were dispatched to Kurdistan* to quell the bloodthirsty Kurds. Five classes of conscripts were called to the colors. General Ismet Pasha, onetime Prime Minister, was appointed to command military...