Word: angoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except in "unusual cases," Turks are henceforth to be monogamous. That is the substance of a law recently passed by Parliament at Angora...
Although Mustapha Kemal Pasha has encountered several serious obstacles in his campaign for the modernization of Turkey, he ean count at least one success to his credit. Some of the decisions of the Angora government have seemed impolitic to outsiders, and in his determination to interfere with the foreign schools in Constantinople the Pasha was hardly diplomatic; but the recently discovered tolerance of the average Turkish citizen toward the moving pictures indicates that Occidentalism is growing faster than the world has been led to suspect. Whether this latest development is due to the efforts of Kemal, of whether...
Article X of the new Turkish Constitution may provoke as.lively a discussion in the homes of the Angora delegates as was provoked- by Article X of the League of Nation's Covenant in the U. S. Senate in 1919. Article X, as originally proposed, specified that every Turk, upon completing his 18th year, was entitled to vote in Parliamentary elections...
...British Moslems and the French North African troops from fighting against the Central Powers, nor did it hold back the Arabs from declaring their independence and fighting as Allies of the British in Palestine. The Jehad proved to be a "dud" shell; but when the Grand National Assembly at Angora abolished the Califate and sent the Calif, Abdul Medjid, to Switzerland in exile (TIME, March 10), the dud proved to be a bomb. The reverberations of the explosion still resound throughout all Christendom as well as the Moslem world...
After deposing Sultan Mahammad VI in 1922, the Angora Government elected Abdul Medjid Effendi to the Califate. Now it has deposed him. The meaning of this sudden change of countenance was said to be that the Calif proved himself not pliable enough to the Government; he, therefore...